Looking at gladiatorial games helps us understand Roman entertainment and the complex role of gladiators in ancient Roman culture. The Colosseum was more than just a place for gladiator fights.
A NEW exhibition on ‘Gladiators of Britain’ has opened at Dorset Museum and Art Gallery. The exhibition has been brought to life by a professional partnership of the British Museum and Colchester and ...
Spartacus Blood Arena is a stand-alone game with a foundation of historical accuracy, unlike other gladiator-themed games that are connected to the Spartacus television series. The game, which was ...
Gladiator culture united this north-western extremity of the Roman Empire with hundreds of towns across the Roman world, from Algeria to Israel, Spain to Syria. Britannia was no rustic backwater ...
adding that if Jews were combatants in the games, they would have been more inclined to battle beasts than other men. In the original “Gladiator” film, Crowe plays Maximus, a Roman general who ...