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 ...

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

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 ...