Thus began a centuries-long custom of brutal, bloody battles between gladiators in the city of Rome. According to the Roman author Ausonius, the fight in honor of Brutus Pera involved six slaves ...

Successful gladiators were the ... so keen on watching men and women fight to the death. Ritualized, public violence had been a favorite entertainment of the Romans for centuries.

The crowds weren’t just offered sword-fighting ... is a bit weird. As the Roman Empire adopted Christianity, the popularity of gladiators decreased. You can’t really “love thy neighbor ...

Gladiators were the rock stars of the Roman Empire. But what was gladiator combat like? How did the slaves of the arena fight and survive over centuries worth of matches? Gladiator combat was a little ...

Roman historian Suetonius records that the emperor Domitian made female gladiators fight at night and by torchlight, while poet Juvenal describes women who decide to fight in unflattering terms.

Not only were gladiators pitted against each other, but gladiators fighting animals and animal ... A normal ticket includes the Colosseum, Roman Forum and Palatine Hill (valid for 24 hours ...

I just finished watching the spectacular movie, Gladiator II ... joined their Persian allies in fighting the hated Byzantine successors to the Roman occupying power: The Winckler-Caetani Theory ...

Not only were gladiators pitted against each other, but gladiators fighting animals and animal ... A normal ticket includes the Colosseum, Roman Forum and Palatine Hill (valid for 24 hours ...