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Roman Amphithreatre Base of King Arthur’s Round Table Legend?

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A new documentary explores the history of King Arthur and whether the legendary Round Table was based on a iconic Roman Amphitheatre. Is it a coincidence that Arthur’s Round Table was originally described as a very large structure, seating 1,600 of his warriors in a circle?

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Christopher Gidlow

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Christopher Gidlow

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The team wondered whether the legendary round table was actually based on an iconic Roman building, such as, an amphitheatre.

Christopher Gidlow: It’s a very intruiging hypothesis, that the round table, the item that appears in the medieval legend is actually based on a rememberence of a big iconic structure, like a Roman amphitheatre for example, that actually existed back in the time of the historical Arthur, back in the 5th or 6th centuries.