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 ...

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 ...