Surely at some point the colosseum was... Not in ruins?
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Interestingly enough, they built it that way because those dastardly Romans knew it would be more iconic that way.
Livy wrote "bro, relinque imperfectum et prospiciet super Instagram" on the subject.
Interestingly enough, they built it that way because those dastardly Romans knew it would be more iconic that way.
Always worried about their legacy, that lot!
Didn't Elagabalus supposedly put effort into repairing it?
Almost every Emperor notes a dozen different structures in Rome they repaired. Not to downplay the repairs - but generally this is more "After a hundred years, wear and tear is starting to take its toll, we had to replace a few columns for safety reasons and re-plaster most of the walls" than "We had to rebuild entire segments which had collapsed"
Built for retro appeal 🙏
(You are correct, of course - much of the Colosseum's damage happened after an earthquake in the 14th century AD)