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Description: HAIP2012: Simon Worthington, http://www.metamute.org/ Festival Haip 2012, 30.11.2012 Location: Bookshop Behemot http://www.behemot.si/where-we-are/ Guest: Simo
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The Roman circus (from Latin , "circle") was a large open-air venue used for public events in the ancient Roman Empire . The circuses were similar to the ancient Greek hippodromes , although circuses served varying purposes and differed in design and construction. Along with theatres and amphitheatres , Circuses were one of the main entertainment sites of the time. Circuses were venues for chariot races , horse races , and performances that commemorated important events of the empire were performed there. F
According to Edward Gibbon , in Chapter XXXI of his work The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire , the Roman people, at the start of the 5th century:
The performance space of the Roman circus was normally, despite its name, an oblong rectangle of two linear sections of race track , separated by a median strip running along the length of about two thirds the track, joined at one end with a semicircular section and at the other end with an undivided section of track closed (in most cases) by a distinctive starting gate known as the carceres , thereby creating a circuit for the races. The Circus of Maxentius epitomises the design.
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