“I see a gladiator school ... first time that gladiators could recover from harsh, demanding training in a fully equipped Roman bath.” Marcus Aurelius was a philosopher-king who, despite ...

The training was organised by Roman gladiator schools into the Tetrad, a 4-day training pattern that, as Alexander Mariotti, expert on combat in the Colosseum and historical consultant to ...

After feeding gladiators all that barley, plus housing and training them ... Across the Roman Empire around 8000 people died in the arena every year. Gladiator battles were held at huge venues ...

Neither Gladiator nor its cinematic sequel ... To participate in Roman political culture required training in rhetoric and oratory. Although a good deal of oratorical training was done by modeling ...

Bloody, brutal but popular, gladiatorial contests are often seen as the dark side of Roman civilization ... Some would then become instructors at gladiator training schools, controlled by the ...

Visit the Colosseum in Rome today, so prominent in both Gladiator movies, and just a few blocks away you’ll find standing the Arch of Titus, showing Roman soldiers carrying away the giant ...