🔗 Naumachia

🔗 Military history 🔗 Classical Greece and Rome 🔗 Military history/Roman and Byzantine military history 🔗 Theatre 🔗 Martial arts

The naumachia (in Latin naumachia, from the Ancient Greek ναυμαχία/naumachía, literally "naval combat") in the Ancient Roman world referred to both the staging of naval battles as mass entertainment, and the basin or building in which this took place.