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[–] glimse@lemmy.world 27 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I looked into this after seeing Gladiator 2 (garbage movie, by the way) and calling them full scale naval battles is a stretch

The arena at the Colosseum only measured 79.35 × 47.20 meters, far removed from the dimensions of the Augustinian basin. A naumachia in the Colosseum could therefore not have been as grand as the previous ones. One can imagine a confrontation between the crews of several reproductions of warships, potentially life-size or reasonably close to it, but actual maneuvers or even floating seems doubtful. It is known that stage-props were used to represent ships, sometimes with mechanisms to simulate shipwrecks, both on stage and in the arena (Tacitus, Annales, XIV, 6, 1; Dio Cassius LXI, 12,2).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naumachia#Naumachiae_in_amphitheatres

[–] Mothra@mander.xyz 16 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Ye it was just for entertainment and scaled down but that's still a pretty large space to fill and that's what makes it remarkable, not the presumed accuracy of naval warfare. Talking about the coliseum btw, not the movie. Movie is lousy

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago

I'm sure it was quite impressive! The water just wasn't all that deep like how it was portrayed in the movie and I was very disappointed to learn the truth

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Having seen the building I'm wondering how they contained all that water and how they regulated the overflow.

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

(am I assuming correctly that autocorrect changed "I'm wondering" to "in win-win"?)

From what I saw, they don't really know since the basement has been renovated. What I want to know is how they sealed it in a way that could be reversed

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 2 points 4 days ago

Yeah you were correct, just fixed it.