1. History of the Colosseum
... would set the boundaries for the eventual ellipse shape. The architect would have then specified the dimensions for the arena floor, and drawn two points on the plan on each vertex, which he would connect with an elliptical arc. This would be the shape and outline of the arena floor. To get the outside walls, he or she would simply have ... ...
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