Talk:List of Roman amphitheatres

Please Confirm or Deny
While going through some other lists, I came across some names I couldn't conform. Can anyone confirm these amphitheatres?


 * Asculum (Ascoli Piceno)
 * Auximum (Osimo)
 * Brixia (Brescia)
 * Cupra Marittima
 * Pisaurum (Pesaro)
 * Taranto
 * Trieste
 * Taormina
 * Malaga, Spain

--SkiDragon 04:49, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
 * I did not find those, not meaning they could not be existing. Where did you find your list? Joris1919 02:06, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

The list was compiled from other language wikipedias, as well as any links I added to the bottom. --SkiDragon 04:30, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

I think the Stara Zagora entry is incorrect. Can anybody confirm?--SkiDragon 01:35, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

In addition to the new French locations I just added, I also found references to the following, but was not confident to add them. Forgive the poor formatting.--SkiDragon 08:05, 28 April 2007 (UTC)


 * Les Andelys, Noyers
 * Le Mans
 * Evreux, Mediolanum Aulercorum
 * Cheneviere (Caran Tomagus) Montbouy
 * Dax, Landes, Aquae Tarbellicae
 * Alesia???
 * Beauvais, Caesaromagus
 * Locmariaquer???
 * Angers???
 * Thénac (Arenes)
 * Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges (Lugdunum Convenarum)

And the following are the locations from the German list that I have not yet added to the English list because of lack of confirmation.--SkiDragon 08:21, 28 April 2007 (UTC)


 * Latinum, Meaux, France
 * Saint-Georges-du-Bois, France
 * Atria, Adria, Italy
 * Circeii, San Felice Circeo, Italy
 * Fanum Fortunae, Italy
 * Fundi, Italy
 * Helvia Ricina, Italy
 * Novum Comum, Como, Italy
 * Nuceria Camellana, Italy
 * Pausolae, Italy
 * Reate, Italy
 * Setia, Italy
 * Velitrae, Italy
 * Vercellae, Italy
 * Ebora Cerealis, Portugal

A good book supposedly is Jean-Clauude Glovin's L'Amphitheatre Romain.--SkiDragon 08:29, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

The following locations were identified by a user on Google Earth, but I can find no confirmation save for suspicious shapes on the ground, and sometimes not even that. From the "high-res" list From the "low-res" list From the "unlocated" list. These just point to the general area I think. From other posts, where the author is not even certain himself. Finally, there are two "private" amphitheatres, and I am not sure how to add them. For Scarbantia, Hungary please see http://translate.google.com/#hu|en|http%3A%2F%2Fwww.muemlekem.hu%2Fmuemlek%3Fid%3D4738 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Antoniusz (talk • contribs) 14:18, 26 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Pelusium, Egypt
 * Dambach, Germany
 * Zugmantel Galgenkoppel, Germany
 * Zugmantel Huhnerstrasse, Germany
 * Balsa, Portugal
 * Braga, Portugal
 * Astorga, Spain
 * Berja, Spain ("Villa Vieja"?)
 * Calahorra, Spain
 * Espejo, Spain
 * Lugo, Spain
 * Mesa de Gandul, Spain
 * Villanueva de la Serena, Spain 38.9723°N, -5.78342°W
 * Sant'Antioco?, Italy (Sulci)
 * Sipontum, Italy
 * Coruna del Conde Amphitheatre - Clunia, Spain
 * Ecija Amphitheatre, Spain
 * Libisosa Amphitheatre?, Spain
 * Nertobriga Amphitheatre, Spain
 * Valeria de Arriba, Spain
 * Gightis Theatre/Amphitheatre?, Tunisia
 * Scarbantia, Hungary
 * Asculum, Italy
 * Compsa, Italy
 * Sulmona, Italy
 * Ercavica, Spain
 * Wadi Hallouf, Tunisia ("Supposed T/A")
 * Cyzicus, Turkey
 * Tigava Castra (at the village of Bel Abbes in Algeria.)
 * Ratiaria, Bulgaria
 * Talacchio, Italy
 * Trebula Balliensis, Italy
 * Amphitheatre of Commodus - Villa Commodiana, Italy
 * Tivoli Villa Adriana Amphitheatre, Italy

New Format?
I was thinking of playing around with the following table structure, which I took from the List of Virtual Console games (North America) article.--SkiDragon 03:09, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

Ok, I am thinking about replacing the current list with this one, but I will wait a few days to see if anybody comments.--SkiDragon 08:58, 9 April 2007 (UTC)


 * I would omit the images, list is more readable without them --Enlil2 13:12, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

What if the width were reduced to 100 pixels, or less?--SkiDragon 09:06, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

If somebody could show me how to make coordinate-type links, it would be very appreciated.--SkiDragon 09:36, 9 April 2007 (UTC)


 * see Template:Coor and the sub-templates described there, also WikiProject_Geographical_coordinates --Enlil2 13:12, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

I decided to go ahead and change the main article.--SkiDragon 09:39, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

I thought about adding coordinates for all sites, and indicating which are exact, as in the German list.--SkiDragon (talk) 23:35, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

Revised layout



 * Your coordinate formatting was useful, especially the "Map of all coordinates" box you added, but you should be aware that you removed the labels on some of the coordinates. They used to be called "Location", which is admittedly not a useful label, but when more than one amphitheatre was located at a single site, the label differentiated between the two.--SkiDragon (talk) 00:46, 27 June 2008 (UTC)




 * Thanks. For Rome, I had split the entry in several rows and moved the coordinates to the corresponding one. There are two other places with two coordinates, maybe we can do the same there? -- User:Docu
 * BTW I added the name tag to the coordinates for the one city where this was missing. -- User:Docu

Barcelona Roman Amphitheatre
A user on the Catalan WP asked me to tidy Barcelona roman amphitheatre. Not sure if it ought to be on here too? Cheers PatHadley (talk) 22:56, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

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Half-amphitheaters?
Is there evidence that these aren't just theaters? If so, it should be cited. - Eponymous-Archon (talk) 17:36, 20 September 2017 (UTC)

The supposed amphitheatre at Caesarea Maritima seems to be merely a theatre. I don't see any evidence of it being an amphitheatre, and photos of the site seem to back that up. If it is an amphitheatre, it would be one of the only true amphitheatres in the Eastern Roman Empire, as it appears gladiator combat in the Eastern Empire was nowhere near as popular as it was in the West, and/or it was done in theatres, so no (or very few) true amphitheatres were built. Ianbrettcooper (talk) 01:40, 19 April 2022 (UTC)

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Ranking list
What are the 10 biggest roman amphitheaters, if everywhere is written following fact: 1st Rome, 2nd Capua, 3rd El Djem, 4th??, 5th??, 6th Pula... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.175.103.8 (talk) 12:37, 27 March 2018 (UTC)

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Amphitheatre in Constantinople?
I'm surprised that there was no amphitheater in Constantinople. No doubt there were gladitorial contests there prior to the 5th century, and I would not think the Hippodrome would be provide a good venue. Perhaps there was one, but has since been ploughed under? RMcPhillip (talk) 17:42, 23 July 2023 (UTC)

Legio
Can someone please help convert the text of the coordinates into a link by using the Coord template? I could not understand how to do this. Thanks. רמרום (talk) 10:33, 16 September 2023 (UTC)

The list contains both theatres and amphitheatres
The list should only contain amphitheatres and not theatres 77.137.64.191 (talk) 19:38, 12 July 2024 (UTC)