Suitably for that great city, it was the largest amphitheatre in the Roman world, capable of holding some 50,000 spectators. Eventually there were well over 250 amphitheatres in the Roman empire-so it is no surprise that the amphitheatre and its associated shows are the quintessential symbols of Roman culture.
Creon (/ËkriËÉn/ ; Greek: ÎºÏÎ­ÏÎ½, KreÅn) is a figure in Greek mythology best known as the ruler of Thebes in the legend of Oedipus.e had four sons and three daughters with his wife, Eurydice (sometimes known as Henioche): Henioche, Pyrrha, Megareus (also called Menoeceus), Lycomedes and Haemon. Creon and his sister, Jocasta, were descendants of Cadmus and of the Spartoi.
a member of a primordial race of giants, each with a single eye in the middle of his forehead. The name is widely thought to mean circle-eyed. Hesiod described one group of cyclopes and the epic poet Homer described another; other accounts were... enâ.wikipediaâ.orgâ/wikiâ/Cyclops.ny copepod of the genus Cyclops, characterized by having one eye | [classical mythology] one of a race of giants having a single eye in the middle ...