Roman gladiators were not physically fit but rather were “quite fat”, a historian has said. Gladiators have gained a ...

ROMAN Gladiators were not at all ripped like the Hollywood heart-throbs who play them — but were actually “quite fat”, a ...

Spartacus was a Thracian gladiator who led a slave revolt with an army numbering in the tens of thousands. He defeated Roman forces over half a dozen times, marching his people up and down the Italian ...

Bloodthirsty roman spectators arriving to watch gladiators fight for their lives might have enjoyed a refreshing cup of wine or purchased a souvenir in the arena, researchers claim. With the help of ...

Even centuries after the fall of the Roman Empire, the lives and deaths of gladiators are still a topic of interest for researchers today. These once ruthless, armed combatants had entertained Roman ...

Beheadings and brutality aplenty marked the deaths of the Roman Empire's gladiators, criminals, and war victims, suggest forensic archaeologists looking at skulls from ancient London. The thriving ...

Archaeologists in Switzerland have uncovered the ruins of a Roman-era amphitheater — possibly the youngest on record — where ...

Dr. Racette-Campbell, a classics professor at the University of Winnipeg, is the author of “The Crisis of Masculinity in the Age of Augustus.” For a modern audience, it’s tempting to valorize the ...