Bowes, Kimberly2023-05-222023-05-222014-01-012017-10-23https://repository.upenn.edu/handle/20.500.14332/8053In order to place the site of Sant’Agnese in Agone in its broader late antique and early medieval context, this article presents an overview of the archaeological evidence for Christian spaces inside spectacle buildings – stadia, hippodromes, theaters and amphitheaters. It suggests that the «Christianization» of such buildings was very rare, and in only a few cases linked to martyrial commemoration. The paper concludes by suggesting some reasons why spectacle buildings should have been so infrequently associated with martyrial memory.This work was originally published by École Française de Rome in Mélanges de l’École Française de Rome: Middle Ages.RomeSalonaCaesarea MaritimaTarragonaSant’Agnese in Agonespectacle buildingschristianizationchurchestemplesarchaeologymartyriumArchitectural History and CriticismArts and HumanitiesChristianityClassicsArticle