
Travel back in time and explore the Colosseum District through our virtual tour.

- Description
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- Credits
- Bibliography
Flyover Zone takes you back in time to learn about the Flavian Amphitheater (“Colosseum”) and nearby monuments. Besides the iconic Colosseum, the virtual tour includes the Arches of Constantine and Titus, the Meta Sudans, the Temple of Venus and Rome, the Ludus Magnus, and the Colossus of the Sun. Reconstructions of the monuments as they appeared in antiquity and audio commentary by experts set these ancient wonders in their original historical and cultural context. You can learn about the leaders responsible for commissioning them, enter the Temple of Venus and Rome—the largest religious sanctuary in the ancient city—to see the stunning cult statues, and get up-close to the reliefs on the Arches of Constantine and Titus, whose colors have been lovingly restored. We also take you to places not readily accessible to visitors to Rome today, including inside the cella of Venus in the Temple of Venus and Rome and the underground spaces of the Colosseum. Like all virtual tours in Yorescape, there are time warps featuring contemporary panoramic photographs of the monuments that allow you to compare their condition and setting in antiquity and the present.
Audio: English
Subtitles: English
Project Manager:
Alberto Prieto
Producer:
Bernard Frischer
Tour Guide/Narration:
Bernard Frischer
Barry Strauss
Scientific Advisors:
Dean Abernathy
Heinz Beste
Amanda Claridge
Bernard Frischer
Lynn Lancaster
Paolo Liverani
C. Brian Rose
Russell Scott
Barry Strauss
Pier Luigi Tucci
Mark Wilson Jones
Script:
Bernard Frischer
3D Modeling:
Lasha Tshkondia
Art Direction:
Mohamed Abdelaziz
Image Credits:
All photographic images of the sites and monuments as they appear today: su concessione del Ministero dei Beni e delle Attività Culturali e del Turismo – Parco Archeologico del Colosseo.
The diagram of the reliefs on the Arch of Constantine is by Marsyas and Augurar via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.5 Deed).
The line drawings of the Temple of Venus and Roma (stop 2), the Domus Aurea of Nero (stop 10), the architectural orders of the Colosseum exterior (stop 11), the seating in the Colosseum (stop 12), and the hypogeum of the Colosseum (stop 14) are courtesy of Amanda Claridge, Rome: An Oxford Archaeological Guide, 2nd edition (Oxford 2010), page 119 figure 47, page 304 figure 133, page 315 figure 137, page 316 figure 138, and page 317 figure 139.
Created By:
Flyover Zone
Special Thanks:
BYA
Soundtrack about circulation in the Colosseum courtesy and copyright of Zack Hegarty 2024. All rights reserved.
The Flyover Zone team dedicates this virtual tour to the memory of G. Karl Galinsky (1942-2024), Professor of Classics at the University of Texas at Austin (1966-2019).
- Andrea Carandini with Paolo Carafa (trans. Andrew Campbell Halavais), The Atlas of Ancient Rome. 2 volumes. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2017.
- Jan Østergaard. “Polychromy, sculptural, Greek and Roman,” in Oxford Classical Dictionary (2018), 31 pages. DOI: 10.1093/acrefore/9780199381135.013.8118
- Eva Margareta Steinby (ed.), Lexicon Topographicum Urbis Romae. 6 volumes. Rome: Edizioni Quasar, 1993-2000.
- Stefan Zink. “Polychromy in Roman Architecture. Colours, Materials, and Techniques,” in Jan Stubbe Østergaard and Anne Marie Nielsen (eds.), Transformation. Classical Sculpture in Colour (Copenhagen: Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, 2014), 237-255.

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