A couple of decades later, when the Roman republic had placed unprecedented political power in the hands of three men, Cicero again deployed the figure of the gladiator as a troubling symbol.

Successful gladiators ... famous that free men queued to take their chances in the arena. Bloody, brutal but popular, gladiatorial contests are often seen as the dark side of Roman civilization.

The ancient Roman settlement of Liternum was found in 194 B.C. and thrived for about 400 years before rapidly declining and ...

Even though it’s at least 1,500 years since the last Roman ... about gladiators are undoubtedly Spartacus and Gladiator, and in both films the leading characters were enslaved men.

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

Across countless videos, men have admitted that they think about the Roman Empire constantly, with some of them claiming that thoughts of gladiators ... centric history of Ancient Rome also ...