Warning: The first 10 rows may get wet!
I looked into this after seeing Gladiator 2 (garbage movie, by the way) and calling them full scale naval battles is a stretch
The arena at the Colosseum only measured 79.35 × 47.20 meters, far removed from the dimensions of the Augustinian basin. A naumachia in the Colosseum could therefore not have been as grand as the previous ones. One can imagine a confrontation between the crews of several reproductions of warships, potentially life-size or reasonably close to it, but actual maneuvers or even floating seems doubtful. It is known that stage-props were used to represent ships, sometimes with mechanisms to simulate shipwrecks, both on stage and in the arena (Tacitus, Annales, XIV, 6, 1; Dio Cassius LXI, 12,2).
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naumachia#Naumachiae_in_amphitheatres
Having seen the building in win-win how they contained all that water and how they regulated the overflow.
(am I assuming correctly that autocorrect changed “I’m wondering” to “in win-win”?)
From what I saw, they don’t really know since the basement has been renovated. What I want to know is how they sealed it in a way that could be reversed
Yeah you were correct, just fixed it.
Ye it was just for entertainment and scaled down but that’s still a pretty large space to fill and that’s what makes it remarkable, not the presumed accuracy of naval warfare. Talking about the coliseum btw, not the movie. Movie is lousy
I’m sure it was quite impressive! The water just wasn’t all that deep like how it was portrayed in the movie and I was very disappointed to learn the truth
