The Colosseum

WONDERS OF THE WORLD

This is a small series of books that will focus on some of the world’s most famous sites or monuments. Their names will be familiar to almost everyone: they have achieved iconic stature and are loaded with a fair amount of mythological baggage. These monuments have been the subject of many books over the centuries, but our aim, through the skill and stature of the writers, is to get something much more enlightening, stimulating, even controversial, than straightforward histories or guides. The series is under the general editorship of Mary Beard. Other titles in the series are:

Geremie R. Barmé: The Forbidden City

Mary Beard: The Parthenon

Simon Bradley: St Pancras Station

Iain Fenlon: Piazza San Marco

Cathy Gere: The Tomb of Agamemnon

Simon Goldhill: The Temple of Jerusalem

Rosemary Hill: Stonehenge

Robert Irwin: The Alhambra

Richard Jenkyns: Westminster Abbey

Keith Miller: St Peter’s

John Ray: The Rosetta Stone

Gavin Stamp: The Memorial to the Missing of the Somme

Giles Tillotson: Taj Mahal

David Watkin: The Roman Forum

Gillian Darley: Vesuvius

David Drew: Machu Picchu

Llewelyn Morgan: The Buddhas of Bamiyan

John Ray: The Lighthouse of Alexandria