The Colosseum

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This updated paperback edition published in 2011

First published in Great Britain in 2005 by

Profile Books Ltd

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Copyright © Keith Hopkins and Mary Beard, 2005, 2006, 2011

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ISBN 978 1 84668 470 8

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