For hundreds of years, bloodthirsty spectators would gather across the Roman Empire to watch gladiators fighting for their ...

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

Gladiators were, by law, required to be slaves. Their enslavers invested time and money in their training and upkeep. Roman games were put on at the expense of local elites, or even the emperor.

Gladiator fights would have been a constant in Roman social life ... to peter out with the rise of Christianity. The pagan games were no longer in favour and were abolished by Emperor Honorius ...

Of the few people in the Roman Empire who dared speak out against this barbarism were the Jews. To be alone in the crowd at the gladiator games — and to have the courage to scream out ...

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 ...

The Colchester Vase depicts a real battle between a secutor and retiarius gladiator ... part in the games". A key exhibit is the Colchester Vase from AD175, discovered in a Roman-era grave in ...