Successful gladiators were the movie stars of the first ... gladiatorial contests are often seen as the dark side of Roman civilization. Given they belonged to such a civilized and sophisticated ...

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

or the Gladiators’ War. Leading his army of runaway slaves, which has been estimated to have reached 100,000 men, Spartacus defeated a series of Roman attacks using tactics which would now be ...

The gladiator and his helmet were probably brought ... or at any 60 or 61 AD victory celebration following the Roman defeat of Boudicca’s (Boadicea’s) rebellion. The new research is ...

Roman historian Suetonius records that the emperor Domitian made female gladiators fight at night ... A fight in which defeat meant automatic death for the loser was known as sine missio, which ...

"Gladiator II" opens with a Roman fleet brutally laying siege to ... civil war—allied to Pompey against Julius Caesar. Upon his defeat, Juba committed suicide, leaving his kingdom to be annexed ...

Commodus was eventually taken down by Roman general-cum-gladiator Maximus Decimus Meridius ... for the Rome Lucius must come to love and defeat — it's the actor's performance that drives ...