What is "coliseums"

Usage examples of "coliseums".

In the dulled heads of the masses, distracted by cheap food and the barbaric spectacles of the coliseums, the values on which Rome had been founded and the ancient rationalism of the Greeks had been replaced by mysticism and superstition.

The gladiatorial violence of the Ro man coliseums, say, or the human sacrifices of the ancient Aztecs.

The gladiatorial violence of the Roman coliseums, say, or the human sacrifices of the ancient Aztecs.

It makes me sad to think that the great coliseums of old, with all the pomp and circumstance, and the eating of the Christians, would be turned over to a sport as banal as hitting a little white ball around a field, all the time trying to catch it.

When Roman emperors threw people to the lions to the cheers of the crowd in the coliseums of the world, I was selling tick­ets and souvenirs or picking the spectators' purses.