Jews had a complex and rocky relationship with ancient Rome, which went through several ... The helmet found in Pompeii’s gladiator training grounds, now housed in a Naples archaeological ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

The lifestyle of elite professional sportsmen in ancient Greece and Rome was comparable to that of a celebrity today.

When you think of gladiators, you probably imagine ancient Rome and huge crowds gathered in arenas such as the Colosseum - however new evidence suggests that they might have also appeared a lot ...

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 ...

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 ...