@Atrabiliousaurus@reddthat.com to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish • 11 months 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-square15fedilinkarrow-up1327arrow-down17file-text
arrow-up1320arrow-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.org@Atrabiliousaurus@reddthat.com to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish • 11 months agomessage-square15fedilinkfile-text
Just came across a mention of this in the toldinstone video How Dangerous Was the Front Row of the Colosseum?.
minus-square@nxfsi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish11•edit-211 months ago20k in the year of our Lord Jesus Christ + 27 is probably half the fucking population of the entire city
minus-squareathos77linkfedilink21•11 months 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-square@Atrabiliousaurus@reddthat.comOPlinkfedilinkEnglish19•11 months agoInterestingly, Jesus probably heard about this disaster. Woulda been a current event for him.
minus-square@EhList@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish3•11 months agoYeshua definitely would have heard about it
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.
Interestingly, Jesus probably heard about this disaster. Woulda been a current event for him.
Yeshua definitely would have heard about it
he’s not my lord. I worship no one.
worship me, bitch
Yes daddy 🥺🥺