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Title: Roman cities in Italy and Dalmatia
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Frothingham, Arthur L. (Arthur Lincoln), 1859-1923
Subjects: Cities and towns, Ancient Cities and towns -- Italy Architecture, Roman Italy -- Antiquities Dalmatia (Croatia) -- Antiquities
Publisher: New York, Sturgis & Walton Company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Pola, Amphitheater: section (restored), detail and interior (Durni)Plate XLVii ROMAN CITIES 289 one who has stood on the hillside back of thegreat amphitheater and watched the golden glinton the bay at sunset through its arcades, or whohas seen it at the same hour from the water, ris-ing luminous and ethereal, there is no amphi-theater in the Roman world, even the Coliseum,that gives as keen a thrill of artistic delight. Thevery barbarous gutting of its interior by themedieval Venetians, to use its blocks of famousIstrian stone for building material in Venice,has heightened its unique beauty by turning thearcades of the enclosure, which are in perfectpreservation, into as many symmetrical pictureframes. One cannot, however, claim an Augus-tan date for this amphitheater, as for that ofSalona; the attribution to the time of the Anto-nines is in harmony with its style. But the rest of the Roman architecture ofPola is almost certainly of the Augustan era;the city gates, the Colony Arch, a

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