Successful gladiators were the movie stars ... had been a favorite entertainment of the Romans for centuries. The practice began as an ancient Etruscan funeral ritual: when a tribal chief died ...

Dress a gladiator for battle in the Roman arena of death. Your choice of weapons and armour will decide whether or not he is victorious. Will the emperor grant your gladiator his freedom ...

Experts in Denmark initially overlooked the “unusual” Roman item because it was buried with “enough weapons for a small army.

Gladiators came from many different backgrounds. They largely came from the lower echelons of Roman society ... where they were given wooden weapons and began long and arduous training sessions.

According to the Roman author Ausonius, the fight in honor of Brutus Pera involved six slaves pummeling away at each other with the weapons ... In the ancient world, gladiator fights were commonly ...