The People's Arena with Alison Futrell
From ArchaeologyTV
Join the Archaeological Institute of America for a fascinating evening with Alison Futrell as she gives the last AIA Archaeology Hour lecture of 2025: "The People's Arena." This presentation was originally given 11/12/2025 at 8pm Eastern. Mass events in the Colosseum were highly visible performances of Rome’s imperial power. But how did the arena impact the lives of ordinary individuals? This talk explores evidence for the experiences of the people in the sands, the seats, and the substructur...
Mentioned in This Episode
- Archaeological Institute of America (company)
- Roman Games (book)
- Oxford Handbook of Sport and Spectacle in the Ancient World (book)
- Age of Empires 4 (product)
- Crescens (person)
- Kilitus (person)
- Urbicus (person)
- Laia (person)
- Olympia (person)
- Fortinencis (person)
- Le Cicero (person)
- Diodoris (person)
- Plenny (person)
- Hocarnasses (location)
- Austia (location)
- Tom Lvodder (person)
- Archaeology magazine (book)
- American Journal of Archaeology (book)
- Danielle Means (person)
- Blood in the Arena (book)