Day 3 of LL- The Gate of Death?

Back when I was in grade 7, we learnt about the time period in Rome, Italy, when the Roman Empire was in control.

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We learnt all about people's daily life and entertainment during that time. That's when I got interested in one of their landmarks. We also did projects in order to learn with a better understanding of life in Rome, and one of the assignments was to create a Facebook account for a Roman. We had to describe where they would go to for entertainment too, so I got even more interested in it. You may start to wonder what landmark was for entertainment, and the answer to your question is the Colosseum.
Colosseum’s existence started in 72 AD and it was officially finished being built 8 years years later in 80 AD. When I first saw this when I did my research, I was amazed because a lot of other structures had to be under construction for quite a few years before it was finished. But the Colosseum was done constructing in 8 years? And you can't even forget that it's nowhere near small. It covers 6 acres of land and so it is basically 620 feet long, 512 feet wide. It used more than 1.1 million times of concrete, stone and bricks in order for the Colosseum to be complete. This humongous size of the Colosseum allows 50,000 people to be seated in it. 

So today's question is, do you know the term “the gate of death”? A name like that can already scare most of us away before we can get to know what it actually mean. It was one of the 76 entrances and exits of the Colosseum, and to be specific, it was the west entrance which was between the gate 57 and gate 58. It was originally known as the "Libitinarian" Gate which came from Libitina who was the goddess of funerals. But why did this gate's nickname come from the goddess of funerals? Here is the answer, it was where dead gladiators and animals were carried out of the arena. 

It was even connected to a tunnel which led the way to a room underneath the arena. At that place the dead bodies of gladiators were stripped and where the weapons and armor of the dead fighter was given to their lanista. In case you guys aren't sure what lanista was, they were the people who bought and took care of the gladiators. I feel like this was absolutely not fair how the lanista receives everything the gladiator when they are alive. Shouldn't their family inherit them, if they have one.

Anyways this is it for today, so I will see you guys next time, bye!

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