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To mark the opening of the Colosseum in 80 C.E., the Roman emperor Titus staged a staggering spectacle, flooding the arena ...
WatchMojo. 25 Surprising Facts About Roman Gladiators You Never Knew. Posted: November 21, 2024 | Last updated: July 10, 2025. These gladiator facts will have you screaming at your local Emperor ...
IX facts about Roman gladiators. We’re all aware of the bloody and barbaric world of the gladiators, thanks to old stories – and Russell Crowe. But who exactly were these mysterious warriors?
How Roman gladiators got ready to rumble. Before they could lay the smackdown in the arena, gladiators were professionally trained, combining a physical regimen with an education in the rules of ...
The ancient Romans are often seen as bringing civilisation to the western world, but they regarded the slaying of gladiators as a normal form of entertainment. Kathleen Coleman describes what went ...
The Roman gladiatrix, though, is a well-kept secret. She has appeared in few pieces of media, among them a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it appearance in Ridley Scott’s “Gladiator” — the famous ...
Dressed as the Roman god, Mercury, Commodus (who ruled from A.D. 176 to 192) battled gladiators, people with disabilities (including those who had lost their feet from injury or illness) and ...
Artists have long depicted Roman gladiators battling it out against big cats as you can see in this mosaic created in A.D. 320 in Rome. However, there has never been any physical evidence to ...