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These are the substructures of is the amphitheatre at Santa Maria Capua Vetere, the site of ancient Capua, Italy. These were used for storing equipment, men and animals and had installations for raising these to the arena floor. It was at Capua 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 and was probably erected in the early to mid 1st century AD. At 170 by 139 metres, the amphitheatre is the second largest in the Roman world, but has suffered from a great deal of stone robbing.

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• Gladiators
• amphitheatre
• Roman
• Spartacus
• Capua