Rome’s infamous Gladiators have captured the public imagination for millennia because of their brutal fights in the arenas of ...
Did you know that over four centuries, the Colosseum saw 400,000 people die in gladiatorial games? This shows the huge scale of violence and the Colosseum’s deep impact on ancient Roman culture. Built ...
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 ...