exploring the stark truths behind these well-known Roman culture markers, often glamorised in films like Gladiator II. Dr Pearce’s discussion will delve into the reality of these spectacles in ...

The social context and settings were defined (a middle-class family in a working class neighborhood in Zaragoza where the protagonist hears on television a news item about the discoveries made by a ...

Archaeologists in Naples, Italy, have shed new light on the lives of Roman gladiators after discovering a tomb for one of these ancient warriors that lay hidden for 2,000 years. The findings offer ...

A marble tomb believed to belong to a Roman gladiator has been uncovered in a newly discovered cemetery in the ancient town of Liternum, now part of Giugliano in Campania, Italy. The find is part of a ...

Historian Tristan Hughes investigates what it was really like to fight as a legionary soldier in the Ancient Roman army. He examines replica weapons, including Germanic and Roman swords ...

Since the word "Scissor" wasn't used again after the 1st century BC, these gladiators either became extinct or were rebranded as Arbelas. The Scissor gladiator holds a dagger in his right hand and, in ...

"Hoplomachus" is derived from an ancient Greek term meaning "armored fighter," and is associated with the Greek hoplon shield, as they were meant to represent the Greek hoplites. Hoplomachus (left) vs ...