CHAPTER SIXAlina and Lord Teverton walked into the Colosseum and stood silent in one of the many Galleries overlooking the large expanse of flooring
Quietly Lord Teverton started to explain to her what it had been like when it was first built.
He described the scene very vividly with its huge crowd of more than eighty thousand spectators.
They were seated according to their rank in the Galleries with women allowed in the top Gallery only.
In the arena gladiators fought one another to the death and men were pitted against wild beasts and beasts against other beasts.
The Colosseum could even be flooded for mimic viciously fought sea battles.
All were spectacles to delight the bloodthirsty mob.
He described how the animals were hoisted up in cages from the dens below the arena and he t
