Photo of Colosseum CC Flickr User Alun Salt.
The Classics editor of the Times Literary Supplement and a Cambridge classics professor, Mary Beard has written a post for her blog on common errors about Rome, including the Romans' predilection for dormouse and the errors made in dating the famous Roman colosseum: When was the Colosseum built?. Without checking out her blog, do you know when it was built? Was Nero responsible? Read more in either her blog or my introduction to Titus, the emperor of Rome when Mt. Vesuvius erupted in A.D. 79. (Vesuvius was the volcano that covered Pompeii and Herculaneum.)