The following contains minor spoilers for "Gladiator ... of women archers — one of them Lucius’ wife Arishat (Yuval Gonen)— appear in a battle between the Numidian and Roman armies.

Roman historian Suetonius records that the emperor Domitian made female gladiators ... and TV shows featuring gladiators understandably concentrate on the sight of two warriors fighting each ...

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 ...

The first reports of gladiators (the name comes from the type of sword they used: the gladius) appears around 264BCE, 2300 years ago, back when Rome was still a republic and didn’t have an ...