Talk:Circus Maximus

message: I would like to know where the circus maximus is located. Does anybody know?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.16.13.153 (talk) 22:57, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Location

message: There is a pic but the page is crowded enough.
--Error 00:34, 20 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: hi 209.68.91.86 (talk) 17:13, 25 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Live 8

message: This article would probably benefit from a picture or rendering, showing what the Circus Maximus looked like during its heydays. What I'm not sure about if there are any out there that can be used without infringing on copyright. -- MiG (talk) 17:00, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: That's exactly what I was going to post about (using almost the same exact wording). I didn't quite get the concept of a circus until I saw this model of the original Maximus, so I think if there is a usable image of it, it would be a very helpful thing. TheHYPO (talk) 07:11, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Historic image? 

message: To revisit a comment from 2 years ago, is a circus considered a Hippodrome? The Hippodrome article suggests that they are separate concepts, but this article leads with The Maxiumus being a hippodrome... Someone with better credentials than I got a comment? TheHYPO (talk) 07:13, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Drome? 

message: This page is currently a disaster. Someone smarter than me please fix. 75.72.193.194 (talk) 02:10, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Please hope 

message: I herby request semiprotection of this page, because of persistent vandalism, currently I have no chance of succsessfully cleaning this page for the massive amounts of bad-faith edits. Gsmgm (talk) 18:37, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Support for this request!--Narayan (talk) 10:44, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

text: Also support this I just pulled of a "you can change anything" from the Related Topics 15 June 2010  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.80.95.242 (talk) 20:56, 15 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Request Protection 

message: http://penelope.uchicago.edu/~grout/encyclopaedia_romana/circusmaximus/circusmaximus.html Here's a website that might help with the article. Mhera (talk) 16:17, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Improving 

message: :Certainly, the first games of the Ludi Romani (Roman Games) were staged at the location by Tarquinius Priscus, the fifth king of Rome
Nope. Any sentence that begins with Certainly and is about Tarquinius Priscus is an overstatement; it's not certain that there was such a man. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 18:50, 12 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Tarquinius Priscus

message: What is the source of this?
In 140AD a collapse of the upper tier caused the death of 1,112 spectators. It remains the deadliest sports-related disaster to date[2].
I can't find it in guinness records web.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.158.214.37 (talk) 13:04, 13 December 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Good question. I can find no scholarly reference at all for this event. Even if one were found, the death toll following the well-attested collapse of Fidenae's gimcrack stands was far higher (see Tacitus ); so I'll remove the "deadliest sports disaster" claim, tag the 140 collapse and its unusually precise mortality figure, and await citation. Haploidavey (talk) 23:22, 14 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Question 

message: The article has long suffered from a disproportion of images to text. I'm going to move the map here for now. For me, the model shows the Circus better; it's too small on the map to read well. Others may disagree, or the article may expand to a length that would accommodate more images. Cynwolfe (talk) 22:18, 14 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  image to text ratio 

message: Just wondering whether any kindly passers by know of scholarship that ever-so-tentatively identifies the stream (noted in the Porter ref on Renascence Rome) as Murcia's own, formerly paved over or led in a conduit beneath the track, and subsequently re-exposed. That would make sense, but a cite's a cite. (Taking a breather here, because it's easier than other stuff. I intend adding a little material on the Circus M's shrines to Murcia and Consus, plus a chopped-down version of the strange foxy Cerean Circus ritual). Haploidavey (talk) 01:07, 15 March 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Sadly, the course of the modern stream dates to the 12th century. Shame. Haploidavey (talk) 23:09, 20 April 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Glad you're working on this. Odd that this article's been relatively undeveloped over the years. Cynwolfe (talk) 20:26, 7 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vallis Murcia 

message: Wasn't some of the buildings (on the spina?) recycled as a fortress by some medieval family?
--Error (talk) 23:42, 19 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Medieval tower 

message: Part of the stands collapsed in 150 AD (?) and killed an enormous amount of people...around ~13,000 I believe. This information should appear somewhere in the article.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 8.24.110.248 (talk) 16:03, 10 June 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: The stands' partial collapse during Diocletian's reign (and the claim of 13000 killed in consequence) are covered in footnote 37. I'll move it into the main text - not sure why I consigned this to a footnote in the first place. Haploidavey (talk) 16:29, 10 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Collapse 

message: The creation of a digital model by the Ausonius Institute has led to yet another downward revision of the number of spectators, in the range 60,000-100,000. See Robert Vergnieux, “Origine de l’usage de la Réalité Virtuelle à l’Institut Ausonius et les premiers travaux sur le Circus Maximus,” in Le cirque romain et son image, p. 240. See also p. 433 n. 26 in the same volume.
Life is too short for me to attempt a revision, but someone may like to add this. Skookumpete (talk) 00:20, 30 May 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Capacity