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Exterior of the Amphitheater, Puteoli ‎A crossroad called the Via Campana leads from Puteoli to Capua, where it joins the famous Appian Way. Along this road, Paul is supposed to have walked. It is still paved with blocks of lava, sacred from the very thought that the feet of the apostle may have trodden it. On this road, about a mile from the sea is the famous amphitheater where Nero is said to have rehearsed the part he was to act on the public stage of Rome. The building is in a remarkable state of preservation. It rests upon three series of arches surrounded by an external court. The view above gives the outside of the amphitheater. Next to the sea delicate fronds of the maidenhair fern cover it, as if nature would conceal the place where crimes were committed which dishonored the spot and the nation in other years. No other people were ever so madly fascinated by the exciting scenes of the arena as were the Romans. Their motto was: “Bread and the circus.” The spell ...

View of the Arena of Amphitheater, Puteoli ‎Here is a fine view of the bay, the distant mountains and the shores of Puteoli. In imagination one can easily reconstruct this desolate ruin, and people it under the sunny skies of southern Italy with the vast multitude of eager spectators whose gay attire shines in the Italian sun and whose shouts of applause fill the air. The amphitheater was three hundred and sixty-nine feet in length and two hundred and sixteen feet in breadth. It was capable of holding twenty-five thousand persons. We see in these ruins, excavated in 1838, the opening leading down into the subterranean passage and chambers where the wild beasts were kept. We can see, also, the air-holes and the outlets of the dens. Here Nero celebrated the gladiatorial combat when he received the king of Armenia as the guest of his court. It was at this time that the emperor himself entered the arena. Nor was the view of Puteoli different in its most important elements in the...