Mark Twain's Colosseum

A lot of my inspiration for choosing the Colosseum as a destination to blog about came from the movie Gladiator. This film depicts Rome and the Colosseum as it would have appeared in the first century A.D. It shows the actual event of going to the Colosseum to be entertained by blood and death. After reading Mark Twain's description of the Colosseum and the reviews that he thinks would have been commonplace, I got the sense that he could have inspired the creation of Gladiator. Using words Twain was able to give me the sense that I was actually there and had seen the event that he was criticizing. This experience will be complete when I go back to the Colosseum and get to explore the space inside for myself.