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This is the first book to analyze the evolution of the Roman amphitheatre as an architectural form. Katherine Welch addresses the critical period in the history of this building type: its origins and dissemination under the Republic, from the third to first centuries BC; its monumentalization as an architectural form under Augustus; and its canonization as a building type with the Colosseum (AD 80). She explores the social and political contexts of each of these phases in detail. The study then shifts focus to the reception of the amphitheatre and the games in the Greek East, a part of the Empire that was, initially, deeply fractured about the new realities of Roman rule.

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• Acknowledgments(p. ix)
• Illustrations(p. xi)
• Abbreviations(p. xix)
• Preface(p. xxi)
• Introduction(p. 1)
• The 'Imperial' Interpretation of Arena Games(p. 5)
• Chapter 1 Arena Games During the Republic(p. 11)
• Origins of Gladiatorial Combat(p. 11)
• The Osco-Samnite Hypothesis(p. 11)
• The Etruscan Hypothesis(p. 14)
• Gladiatorial Games during the Republican Period(p. 18)
• The Venatio and Damnatio ad Bestias in the Republican Period(p. 22)
• Other Forms of the Death Penalty(p. 26)
• The Arena and the Roman Army(p. 27)
• Conclusion(p. 28)
• Chapter 2 Origins of Amphitheatre Architecture(p. 30)
• The Setting of Gladiatorial Games at Rome during the Republic: The Forum Boarium and Forum Romanum(p. 30)
• Evidence for Spectator Arrangements in the Forum Romanum in the Republican Period(p. 31)
• The Middle Republic(p. 32)
• The Late Republic(p. 38)
• The Shape and Form of the Seating Construction ("Spectacula") in the Forum Romanum(p. 43)
• Constructional Aspects of the Spectacula in the Forum Romanum(p. 55)
• Conclusion(p. 71)
• Chapter 3 Stone Amphitheatres in the Republican Period(p. 72)
• The Amphitheatre and Sullan Colony at Pompeii(p. 74)
• Army Training and Gladiatorial Combat: 105 BC and After(p. 79)
• Geographical Distribution and Dating of Republican Amphitheatres(p. 82)
• The Ludi of Capua(p. 91)
• The Transition from Wood to Stone(p. 91)
• The Amphitheatre and Campus at Pompeii(p. 95)
• Conclusion(p. 100)
• Chapter 4 The Amphitheatre Between Republic and Empire: Monumentalization of the Building Type(p. 102)
• Decoration of the Facades of Early-Imperial Amphitheatres: The Tuscan Order(p. 102)
• A Higher Order of Killing: Statilius Taurus and Rome's First Stone Amphitheatre(p. 108)
• Conclusion(p. 126)
• Chapter 5 The Colosseum: Canonization of the Amphitheatre Building Type(p. 128)
• The Innovation of the Colosseum's Facade: Greek Architectural Orders and Sculptural Decoration(p. 130)
• Cultural Repertoire of Amphitheatre Games under the Empire: 'Fabulous' Executions(p. 145)
• The Colosseum and Nero's Domus Aurea(p. 147)
• Conclusion(p. 161)
• Chapter 6 Reception of the Amphitheatre in the Greek World in the Early Imperial Period(p. 163)
• Athens(p. 165)
• Corinth(p. 178)
• Conclusion(p. 183)
• Conclusion(p. 186)
• Appendix Amphitheatres of Republican Date(p. 189)
• Architectural Characteristics of Republican Amphitheatres(p. 189)
• Republican Amphitheatres in Italy(p. 192)
• Republican Amphitheatres Outside of Italy(p. 252)
• Notes(p. 265)
• Bibliography(p. 329)
• Index(p. 351)