{"id":21281,"date":"2021-01-25T14:05:17","date_gmt":"2021-01-25T13:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/colosseo.it\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=21281"},"modified":"2021-02-04T18:12:17","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T17:12:17","slug":"stories-from-the-colosseum-epigraphy-lessons-regarding-the-cavea-loca-and-the-spectators-that-filled-them","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/colosseo.it\/en\/event\/stories-from-the-colosseum-epigraphy-lessons-regarding-the-cavea-loca-and-the-spectators-that-filled-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Stories from the Colosseum. Epigraphy lessons: on the cavea, loca and the spectators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">In the 1930\u2019s, a portion of the Colosseum\u2019s <i>cavea<\/i> was reconstructed on the monument\u2019s eastern side, where the public once sat to take in long days of entertainment, from wild animal hunts to gladiatorial battles. Although the reconstruction is not perfectly accurate, it nevertheless succeeds in evoking the ways in which the public filled the Colosseum\u2019s seating sections, rebuilt using the original fragments of marble ledges found over the course of various excavations.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Entry to the Colosseum was regulated through a sort of ticket which indicated the appropriate entrance arch and path to follow to reach the seats (<i>loca<\/i>) assigned to each family group.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">In our second epigraphy lesson, once again led by <b>Silvia Orlandi, professor of Latin epigraphy at Sapienza University of Rome<\/b>, and accompanied by Federica Rinaldi, monument supervisor, <b>we will discover the names of these families and even the size of their assigned seats<\/b>. We will also find out how the public kept themselves busy in the stands between one show and the next, for example using ancient board games (<i>tabulae lusoriae<\/i>) carved in marble.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Tune in on <b>Monday 1 February at 21:00 across our social media channels.<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the 1930\u2019s, a portion of the Colosseum\u2019s cavea was reconstructed on the monument\u2019s eastern side, where the public once sat to take in long days of entertainment, from wild animal hunts to gladiatorial battles. Although the reconstruction is not perfectly accurate, it nevertheless succeeds in evoking the ways in which the public filled the<a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/colosseo.it\/en\/event\/stories-from-the-colosseum-epigraphy-lessons-regarding-the-cavea-loca-and-the-spectators-that-filled-them\/\" title=\"ReadStories from the Colosseum. Epigraphy lessons: on the cavea, loca and the spectators\">&#8230; Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":21273,"template":"","meta":[],"tags":[],"location_evento":[35],"tribe_events_cat":[222],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/colosseo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/21281"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/colosseo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/colosseo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colosseo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/colosseo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/21281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21723,"href":"https:\/\/colosseo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/21281\/revisions\/21723"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colosseo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/colosseo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colosseo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21281"},{"taxonomy":"location_evento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colosseo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location_evento?post=21281"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colosseo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=21281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}