The drawings depict a fight scene with two gladiators, spears in hand ... capturing the ancient Roman city of Pompeii in a ...

Gladiator culture united this north-western extremity of the Roman Empire with hundreds of towns across the Roman world, from Algeria to Israel, Spain to Syria. Britannia was no rustic backwater ...

According to the Roman historian Tacitus ... brought us closer to understanding the ordinary fans of gladiators. In particular, the drawings of armored combatants, which are captioned with ...