While gladiators may have used unique weapons, they also used implements of war that were more familiar throughout the Roman world. The foremost of these was the gladius, a type of short sword ...

Social media screwed me badly because I was watching “Gladiator II” thinking, “So Lucius’ Roman Empire is the ... sequel than his acclaimed “sword-and-sandal masterpiece.” ...

In early Roman Britain, the key individuals who were ... have put a series of tiny one-centimetre-long engravings of gladiator swords (the ‘gladii’ from which the term gladiator actually ...

He carried a long, straight sword and a large shield that could ... The strangest volunteer gladiator was a Roman Emperor. His name was Emperor Commodus, who you might recognise from the movie ...

Gladiator culture united this north-western extremity of the Roman Empire with hundreds of towns across the Roman world, from Algeria to Israel, Spain to Syria. Britannia was no rustic backwater ...

A NEW exhibition on ‘Gladiators of Britain’ has opened at Dorset Museum and Art Gallery. The exhibition has been brought to life by a professional partnership of the British Museum and Colchester and ...

Ridley Scott’s Gladiator from 2000 was never good enough to develop a cult following — it was a convictionless, ersatz version of sword-and-sandal ... Scarpa parallels the Rome-before-the ...