Circus Maximus
Historical place in Rome, ItalyWikipedia
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Oct 2, 2026
Chiara BarziniGUEST
Water gave the city the power to mount the spectacular and the exclusive, just as it did in Rome when in 46 BC Julius Caesar used the Aqua Alcetina to stage the first Namakie, Moxie battle reenactments from past wars.
Chiara BarziniGUEST
When we were in school in Rome, we read about these glorious demonstrations in our history books and dreamed about a time when water was diverted and flushed into the Colosseum and Circo Massimo.
Chiara BarziniGUEST
The battles were often bloodier than gladiatorial fights as they involved large numbers of fighters.
Chiara BarziniGUEST
And they were usually captured enemy slaves or criminals sentenced to death.
James KayHOST
Yeah.
James KayHOST
I guess I'd be at the Circus Maximus, I think more than the Colosseum.
James KayHOST
Yeah.
James KayHOST
I think I'd be a bit more into that.
Joseph SpenceGUEST
I was str- like, so they came to visit Rome, you know, um, a while ago, and, um, together with my- some- a couple of my sisters, a couple of my nieces.
Joseph SpenceGUEST
And, uh, so we visited, uh, Circus Maximus, and I was like, "Hey, you know, there's a rose garden if you wanna see it.
Joseph SpenceGUEST
It's nice." So we went there, you know, spent about a half an hour.
Joseph SpenceGUEST
Beautiful rose garden in Rome, looking out on Circ- Circus Maximus.
Joseph SpenceGUEST
If anyone has been there or not-
Conor GallagherHOST
Yeah
Allison SinclairHOST
Houses, houses, houses.
Allison SinclairHOST
And then, like, a Circus Maximus right there-
JPHOST
Yeah
Allison SinclairHOST
... by this estate.
Terry SladekGUEST
This is not, by every indication, going to be a mediated, make it go away, everybody signs nondisclosures.
Terry SladekGUEST
This is going to be, and I, I, I, I, I hope that all of my information is sound, this is going to be a Circus Maximus.
Philip TeresiHOST
Yeah.
Terry SladekGUEST
This is going to be the Ben-Hur chariot race, pull back everything, you know, unless Fresno Unified comes out and offers him this staggering amount of money that would be enough to, to, uh, stop a, uh, team of oxen in its tracks.
Quinn RobinsonGUEST
So like the ginormous church you think of when you think of Rome, Italy and Catholics and the Vatican underneath that are all these excavations where there's a, like the bodies of all the Christians that got killed by the Roman empire.
Quinn RobinsonGUEST
Cause the, the Vatican got built on top of the circus Maximus, which like most people think that all the martyrdoms and killings happened in the Coliseum, but most of the Christians were actually killed in a circus Maximus, which is now where St. Peter's Basilica is built on top of it.
Quinn RobinsonGUEST
It's kind of a, kind of a flex.
Quinn RobinsonGUEST
So a bunch of like the bones of the Christians that got killed are under there, including St. Peter who got crucified upside down right there.
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Quinn RobinsonGUEST
Well, he's walking out of Rome, and Jesus walks by him going the other direction.
Quinn RobinsonGUEST
And he says, Lord, where are you going? Don't we need cool bodies? And Jesus says, I'm going back into Rome to get crucified again.
Quinn RobinsonGUEST
And so Peter turned back around, and like I said earlier, he got crucified upside down in the Circus Maximus.
Quinn RobinsonGUEST
And his body is still there.
Robert BarronGUEST
That's where the emperor lived, the Palatine Hill.
Robert BarronGUEST
The Circus Maximus was there on the other side, and the emperor could go and watch the games.
Robert BarronGUEST
So the glory of Rome, I mean, the grandeur of the Roman emperor.
Robert BarronGUEST
And he was looking over there thinking, where are you? Where's your successor? Nowhere.
KellyHOST
Yeah, chuckle fucker.
KateHOST
I was doing trivia today and one of the answers was Circus Maximus.
RobbieHOST
Circus Maximus? Is it like a before and after category?
KateHOST
No, it's the arena where gladiators used to...
KateHOST
Circus Maximus? Circus Maximus, yeah.
RobbieHOST
Really?
KellyHOST
Yeah.
KellyHOST
I was like, oh, that
John TrevithickNARRATOR
The Colosseum could no doubt seat over 80,000 spectators.
John TrevithickNARRATOR
The circuit of the bench frontage of the Circus Maximus was very nearly a mile in length, and the Romans of imperial times certainly used 10 times as much water as the modern Romans, but on the other hand habits change.
John TrevithickNARRATOR
And Rome, as it is defined by lines drawn at the times of its greatest ascendancy, the city that is, enclosed by the walls of Aurelian, and including all the regiones of Augustus, an enclosure from which there could have been no reason for excluding half or more of its population, could have scarcely contained a million.
John TrevithickNARRATOR
It would have packed very comfortably within the circle of the Grand Boulevard of Paris, the Paris that is of Louis XIV, with a population of 560,000.
Jeremy Ryan SlateGUEST
Over by the Palatine Hill, Rome is built on seven hills.
Jeremy Ryan SlateGUEST
Over by the Palatine Hill is the Circus Maximus, which would have been kind of the key place a lot of games were before, mainly chariot races.
Shawn JohnsonHOST
I see.
Shawn JohnsonHOST
Wow.
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