Successful gladiators were the movie stars ... had been a favorite entertainment of the Romans for centuries. The practice began as an ancient Etruscan funeral ritual: when a tribal chief died ...
Gladiators came from many different backgrounds. They largely came from the lower echelons of Roman society ... There were around 20 types of gladiator. Historians have gleaned these from various ...
The first reports of gladiators (the name comes from the type of sword they used: the gladius) appears around 264BCE, 2300 years ago, back when Rome was still a republic and didn’t have an ...
When we think of ancient Rome, gladiator fights are often top of mind ... in an arena next to the Colosseum that taught several types of fighting—and Macrinus was a real person who later ...
a type of fighter that was trained for close combat against the retiarius gladiator, a quicker, more agile class of gladiator that wielded a net and trident. Gladiators in ancient Rome were ...
Did Jewish gladiators even exist? But many have occupied themselves with questions about the role of Jews in ancient ... Rome as slaves, “so there could have been more trained warrior types ...