Atrabiliousaurus@reddthat.com to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoTIL that the worst stadium disaster in history was the collapse of a wooden amphitheater in 27 AD that killed 20,000 people.en.m.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square6fedilinkarrow-up118arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up118arrow-down1external-linkTIL that the worst stadium disaster in history was the collapse of a wooden amphitheater in 27 AD that killed 20,000 people.en.m.wikipedia.orgAtrabiliousaurus@reddthat.com to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square6fedilinkfile-text
Just came across a mention of this in the toldinstone video How Dangerous Was the Front Row of the Colosseum?.
minus-squarenxfsi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down2·edit-21 year ago20k in the year of our Lord Jesus Christ + 27 is probably half the fucking population of the entire city
minus-squareathos77@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoThe population of Rome the city at the time is estimated at about one million people. So twenty thousand is like 2% - one out of every fifty people in the city died in that stadium.
minus-squareAtrabiliousaurus@reddthat.comOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down1·1 year agoInterestingly, Jesus probably heard about this disaster. Woulda been a current event for him.
20k in the year of our Lord Jesus Christ + 27 is probably half the fucking population of the entire city
The population of Rome the city at the time is estimated at about one million people. So twenty thousand is like 2% - one out of every fifty people in the city died in that stadium.
he’s not my lord. I worship no one.
Interestingly, Jesus probably heard about this disaster. Woulda been a current event for him.