naumachia

IPA: nˈaʊmʌʃˈiʌ

(historical, nautical, in Ancient Rome) The recreation of a sea battle staged for entertainment.
(historical) The location where such recreated sea battles took place; a building featuring an artificial body of water.

Examples of "naumachia" in Sentences

And like you once wrote, Barcelona had a naumachia.
The naumachia of Claudius therefore truly reproduced naval combat.
After the Flavian period, naumachia disappear from the texts almost completely.
It was written about B.C. 2, from the allusion, i. 171, to the 'naumachia' in that year,
The Aqua Alsietina transported water into the Trastevere area of Rome (to Augustus's 'naumachia' - a man-made lake where the Romans could re-enact sea battles).
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Their adjacent solo installations are well worth seeing, if only because they are profoundly at odds with each other: Mr. Bozhkov salvages, while Mr. Riley torches the place in a "naumachia" (Roman naval battle).
Its ramparts, in a state of partial preservation, are still to be seen; also a magnificent triumphal arch, with three openings about 82 feet wide by 29 high; a "naumachia", or circus for naval combats; two theatres; the forum with fifty-five columns still standing; the great colonnade which crosses the city from north to south, and which still retains from 100 to 150 of its columns; several aqueducts; some propylaea; a temple of the Sun, the columns of which are about 40 feet high, and several other temples, baths, etc. Greek and Latin inscriptions are very numerous among the ruins.