About how many people did the Circus Maximus hold

The Circus Maximus was arguably the largest structure in ancient Rome, with the capacity to seat 250,000 people according to Pliny (roughly a quarter of Rome's population at the time; some historians today think the number might have been a tad smaller than Pliny said, around 150,000 rather than 250,000.

The Circus Maximus was arguably the largest structure in ancient Rome, with the capacity to seat 250,000 people according to Pliny (roughly a quarter of Rome's population at the time; some historians today think the number might have been a tad smaller than Pliny said, around 150,000 rather than 250,000