The gladiators of ancient Rome were some of the fittest and strongest to walk the Earth, so naturally their training garners a lot of attention from historians and lifters alike. Author and coach ...

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 ...

Today, these brutal battles seem like the quintessential ancient Roman ... gladiators also changed. At first, they had been slaves armed with simple weapons and no armor. They had little to no ...

Neither Gladiator nor its cinematic ... for the prevalence of this image in Roman political language. To participate in Roman political culture required training in rhetoric and oratory.

The first reports of gladiators (the name comes from the type of sword they used: the gladius) appears around 264BCE, 2300 years ago, back when Rome was ... plus housing and training them for ...