The villas, forum, shops, basilica and baths aren't what they were in 2AD – when an earthquake accelerated the decline in its fortunes – but it's easy to imagine the citizens looking out to sea while waiting for the action to kick off in the amphitheatre.
The songs fell silent when people reached the austere amphitheatre of the Union Buildings, built in light sandstone a century ago and in the style of the ancients – the government describes it as a "modern-day acropolis" atop a hill.
As Murray won the second set and hauled his way back into the third, chants of "There's only one Andy Murray" broke out in pockets of the natural amphitheatre.
American wrestling is slick and well-groomed, with sweeping operatic storylines that converge in vast pay-per-view amphitheatre events.
They are building a greenhouse and a classroom with an outdoor learning space, including a weather station and amphitheatre.
Sitting in a natural amphitheatre under a rocky ridge, the larger, Wallpaper House, sleeps six and was designed for Wallpaper* magazine.
Only two hours from the Chilean capital of Santiago, Valparaíso spreads across a series of hillsides that form a natural amphitheatre overlooking the sea.
Just below the amphitheatre a bronze sculpture of a horse and two men commemorates the first world war, while two vintage artillery guns point to the horizon.
The town is as steeply raked as an amphitheatre, and my abiding memory is of scaling its steps and winding roads with all our stuff, then checking into a hotel attractively situated at the point where our legs gave out.
In such aircraft, passengers would find themselves seated in a sort of amphitheatre, rather than a tube.
Hundreds of non-Muckleshoots who live near the amphitheatre say the noise and traffic congestion it will bring is bound to change their quiet landscape.
