Ancient Roman entertainment was more than just bloody gladiator games! Learn about the Roman sports and Roman theater that ...

leading many to wonder if female gladiators actually existed in Ancient Rome. Gladiator II is the long-awaited sequel to ...

Unlike society in ancient Egypt, Rome did not regard women as equal to men before the ... from ladies’ maids to farm workers, and even gladiators. Wealthy widows, subject to no man’s authority ...

Advertisement Article continues below this ad But I’m most interested in how the two films misrepresent the way Roman gladiators and their bodies were viewed by their republic-minded contemporaries.

Did Jewish gladiators even exist? It’s at least as likely that Jews took to the arena in ancient Rome as it was that gladiators fought sharks, a key plot point of Ridley Scott’s “Gladiator ...

And so it is by the same means as the gladiators that the free men and women of Rome are incited, in the space of a few seconds by a vaguely obvious point and without any whiff of foreshadowing.

Did Jewish gladiators even exist? But many have occupied themselves with questions about the role of Jews in ancient Rome’s famous bloodsport, including whether fights took place in ancient ...