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By our term of a weekly count, hardly any people died in the Colosseum. Yes, the Colosseum was used as an execution center, but remember it was an entertainment center. Events did not take place in it constantly. It was a very expensive undertaking to set up a show in the giant arena. The executions were held in connection with some other event, usually a gladiatorial contest and the gladiatorial bouts took place perhaps two or three times a year in celebration of some event or anniversary. Hollywood history would have you believe that Christians were constantly being thrown to the lions during the persecutions, but this simply was not true.

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