By Barbie Latza Nadeau, Antonia Mortensen, CNN Rome (CNN) — Rome's ancient Colosseum, where gladiators were once gored by wild animals to the delight of cheering crowds, has never exactly been associated with safety. Even in fiction, Henry James' heroine "Daisy Miller" succumbed to malaria caught during a moonlight visit to the amphitheater.
By Barbie Latza Nadeau, Antonia Mortensen, CNN Rome (CNN) — Rome's ancient Colosseum, where gladiators were once gored by wild animals to the delight of cheering crowds, has never exactly been associated...
Even in fiction, Henry James' heroine "Daisy Miller" succumbed to malaria caught during a moonlight visit to the amphitheater.
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By Barbie Latza Nadeau, Antonia Mortensen, CNN Rome (CNN) — Rome's ancient Colosseum, where gladiators were once gored by wild animals to the delight of cheering crowds, has never exactly been associated with safety. Even in fiction, Henry James' heroine "Daisy Miller" succumbed to malaria caught during a moonlight visit to the amphitheater.
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