Capua Roman Gladiator Museum Amphitheatre Italy

This is the museum of the gladiators by the amphitheatre at Santa Maria Capua Vetere, the site of ancient Capua, Italy. It was here that the gladiator Spartacus led the Servile War of 73 BC, celebrated in the Kirk Douglas movie though the building today belongs to after that date. He was then training at the gladiator's barracks, owned by Lentulus Batiatus. The amphitheatre is the second largest in the Roman world, but has suffered from a great deal of stone robbing. Some of the carved reliefs, including remarkable seat dividers in the form of wild animals, have been placed in here.

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Education

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• Roman
• Empire
• gladiators
• Spartacus
• Capua
• Amphitheatre