What is "amphitheaters"

Usage examples of "amphitheaters".

In that palace there were also many galleries, and many amphitheaters where lions and men and elephants battled at the pleasure of the kings.

Sometimes the amphitheaters were flooded with water conveyed from the lake in mighty aqueducts, and then were enacted stirring sea-fights, or combats betwixt swimmers and deadly marine things.

Michaels grabbed Martin's arm and pulled him into the hall connecting the two old amphitheaters.

There were two large lecture amphitheaters on the first floor as well as several ancillary rooms.

The hall followed a circular pattern as it skirted the pit of one of the amphitheaters.

Now she saw that the surface was coated with buildings: they were all about the scale of the Eighth Room, but they came in every shape Erwal could imagine—domes, cubes, pyramids, cylinders and spires—and there were bowls and cup-shaped amphitheaters lying open to the sky.

In the amphitheaters of a hundred towns on the night side of Mars the brown Martian people with gold coin eyes were leisurely met to fix their attention upon stages where musicians made a serene music flow up like blossom scent on the still air.