I. Gladiators came from many different backgrounds. They largely came from the lower echelons of Roman society. Some of the earliest were prisoners of war, who fought wearing their own culture's ...

The Colosseum in Rome: History's most famous amphitheatre ... Which, let’s face it, is a bit weird. As the Roman Empire adopted Christianity, the popularity of gladiators decreased.

The graveyard of Liternum, near Naples, was in use between the first century B.C.E. and the third century C.E.

With the gladiatrix banned by Septimius Severus in 200 C.E., blotted from Roman history, and overlooked in both “Gladiator II” and its predecessor, it seems we’re still not ready for a woman ...

Like sports fans throughout history, a team’s fans ... But not everyone was such a fan. Like the gladiators, chariot races were popular sports for the Roman masses, not the social elites ...

Over the course of this period, early forms of public welfare were established by Titus and Trajan and, in difficult times, plebeians could ask Roman administrators for help. We know much less ...

Archaeologists uncovered a Roman gladiator’s tomb in ancient Liternum shedding light on burial customs and daily life in ...

Ridley Scott's Gladiator 2 begins with a similar note as his 2000 movie, where Hanno (Paul Mescal), who is the son of the legendary gladiator Maximus (Russell Crowe) and Lucille (Connie Nielsen), lose ...