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SM 642 Midterm Questions And Answers Latest Update
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SM 642 Midterm Questions And Answers Latest
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Ampitheater ANS✔✔ single most distinctive form of Roman architecture,
primary venue of sport and spectacle in Roman world.
oval arena, completely surrounded by seating, tiered in elevation for better
line of sight
events: gladiatorial contests, beast hunts, aquatic displays and mock
battles.
earlier, were temporary wooden structures.
Certification ANS✔✔
Circus ANS✔✔ Latin for horse track, accommodated for up to 12 chariots,
length: 250-580m
features: central barrier walls, turning posts, walls separating seating area
from track.
Less common than amphitheaters, city status symbol.
Circus Maximus: Located in Rome, Largest circus in Roman world, Modern
estimates of spectator
capacity, 150,000 - 350,000, Highest estimates credible for, Trajanic period
(99-117 AD)
Diffusion of Innovation ANS✔✔
Gymnasium ANS✔✔ Literal
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translation- "place for nude exercise"
A multi-use type of facility used for recreation, exercise, athletic practice
and physical education, Included
both the park-like natural setting and spaces used for training along with
the built structures used for athletic and other purposes, Aspects of
gymnasion: Dromoio - straight running track
Paradromis - open air
Xystos - roofed
Palaistra - rectangular shaped building
with an open courtyard
Hippodrome ANS✔✔ The venue used for the racing of horses and chariots.
The nature of this sport required large and relatively flat areas which
remained fairly undeveloped from an architectural and structural
perspective.
Greek hippodromes differed from the later Roman tracks in that they
did not include a central dividing barrier in the middle of the track to
prevent head-on collisions, but provided only turning posts at each
end of the hippodrome to designate the
course
Paliasitra ANS✔✔ gymnasium, rectangular shaped building
with an open courtyard
Pankration ANS✔✔
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