Fabricia Fauquet, « L’architecture du cirque romain et ses images », HAL-SHS : architecture, ID : 10670/1.ik6519
From the antiquity, a "world" distribution of the by-products of a sports show!The circus and its figurative represent tations were diffused in time, of the VIIIth BC in the XIIIth century, and in the space, that of the Roman world. The craze of the Roman for this sport is comparable to the one that we know at present for the football : the same fervour, the same fights between the partisans of various clubs or factions. This enthusiasm generates numerous "by-products": the image of the circus is broadcast on a multitude of media: of the smallest, exchanges them in the biggest: mosaics. In the face of this profusion of supports of distribution, we shall wonder about the types of media favored to represent the architecture of the circus. ).How was this one represented and why? In what are these former representations a source of knowledge of the architecture and the functioning of this building? What images allow this architecture disappeared today to be always present in our collective imagination?