Different Roman Gladiator Types Explained. Posted: November 23, 2024 | Last updated: December ... and today we’re taking a closer look at the different varieties of gladiator common in Ancient Rome.

Clockwise from top left: Roman mosaic of a retiarius versus a secutor; Roman bronze gladiator helmet, Italy; Roman gladiator fresco, Pompeii, Italy While some ancient written sources describe ...

Virtual reality brings Rome visitors back in time 02:46 “Oil lamps with depictions of gladiators were sold all around this area,” Neubauer said, so some of the shops likely sold souvenirs. The ...

Hundreds of graffiti messages engraved into stone in the ancient city of Aphrodisias, in modern-day Turkey, have been discovered and deciphered, revealing what life was like there over 1,500 years ...

I'm an expert on Ancient Rome - here's how the BBC's Gladiators TV show compares to the REAL fighters 2,000 years ago. Classics lecturer at Oxford compares the new reboot and the original gladiators ...

Gladiator II, the long-awaited sequel to Best Picture Oscar winner Gladiator arrives in North American cinemas on Friday.. University of B.C. instructors Dr. Charmaine Gorrie and Dr. Siobhán McElduff ...

In Rome, however, gladiator shows became so popular that the three pairs of fighters at the funeral of Brutus in 264 B.C. grew to 300 pairs by the time Julius Caesar was buried in 44 B.C ...

The research, published Wednesday in the journal PLOS One, marks the first time this type of gladiator-animal combat has been confirmed through skeletal remains. Researchers say bite marks on the ...