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What was the outdoor arena called in Rome?
The mane of the arenas for the gladiatorial games was amphitheater.
What is the name of constantiople's colosseum?
There is only one Colosseum. Colosseum is a nickname for what the Romans called the Flavian amphitheatre in the city of rome. The Colosseum was an arena. Roman arenas were/are called amphitheatres. The arena of Constantinople was called the amphitheatre of Constantinople.
What were the men who fought in the amphitheatres in rome called?
If they were hired to fight in the arena, they were called gladiators. If they were hired to fight in the army, they were called auxiliaries. If they were hired to fight in the streets, they were called thugs.
What was the name Rome's largest arena?
Colosseum
What is the arena where chariot races were held called?
In Rome it was called the Circus Maximus; on an oval track about the size of a 100 yard football field. In Greece it was the Hippodrome.Chariot races were held in a long narrow stadium known as a "hippodrome" in the Greek world and a "circus" in the Roman world.If you use Google Earth to look at the ruins of Tyre in the Lebanon, or south-east of Haghia Sophia in Istanbul, or by the forum in Rome, you will see the typical shape of a hippodrome (Hippo is the root for horse, ie hippopotamus= water horse)
