when the Roman republic had placed unprecedented political power in the hands of three men, Cicero again deployed the figure of the gladiator as a troubling symbol. This time, he used it to call ...

over time, some of the upper classes began to get fed up with their brutality. In a letter to a friend, the philosopher Seneca criticized popular enthusiasm for gladiators and advised his friends ...

Back then rich Romans ... But gladiators had an amazingly long run, with the sport lasting around 600 years. There’s no record of how many dormice were consumed during that time.

Researchers made the “extraordinary” find while excavating a 1,600-square-foot necropolis — an ancient cemetery with ornate tomb monuments — located near the location of the ancient settlement of ...

Commodus was a gladiator manqué who may have acquired his taste for the sport during a period ... Like a time-lapse cartoon of a flower unfolding, the LBI ArchPro graphic shows Roman campsites ...