According to the Roman author Ausonius, the fight in honor of Brutus Pera involved six slaves pummeling away at each other with the weapons and armor of the Thracians, a people who lived in the ...
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 ...