Successful gladiators were the ... so keen on watching men and women fight to the death. Ritualized, public violence had been a favorite entertainment of the Romans for centuries.

Thus began a centuries-long custom of brutal, bloody battles between gladiators in the city of Rome. According to the Roman author Ausonius, the fight in honor of Brutus Pera involved six slaves ...

Roman historian Suetonius records that the emperor Domitian made female gladiators fight at night and by torchlight, while poet Juvenal describes women who decide to fight in unflattering terms.

Cupids fight as miniature gladiators on a mosaic from Bignor Roman villa in West Sussex. A reconstructed wall painting depicting combat between two gladiators, Colchester, 1st century AD Credit ...

New research is revealing the remarkable story of one of Britain’s most enigmatic archaeological finds - a Roman gladiator helmet, discovered buried in a field in East Anglia. At such a critical ...

Not only were gladiators pitted against each other, but gladiators fighting animals and animal ... A normal ticket includes the Colosseum, Roman Forum and Palatine Hill (valid for 24 hours ...