Politicians like Cicero saw gladiators as vain and self-indulgent, while the true warriors engaged in wars of words.

Divers have discovered a 2,000-year-old copper knife handle, carved in the shape of a tiny gladiator, in an English river—evidence that widespread fascination with the battling Romans began long ...

Austria's Underground Ancient Roman Gladiator School They lived in cells barely big enough to turn around in and usually fought until they died. This was the lot of those at a sensational ...

Close to 100 gladiator schools existed within the Roman Empire, but four schools set themselves apart: Ludus Magnus, Ludus Gallicus, Ludus Dacicus, and Ludus Matutinus.

Marcus Tullius Cicero used gladiators’ physiques not to celebrate the republic’s valiant heroes, but to deride their bloated muscles as the embodiment of amoral tyranny.

Imagine you're an ancient Roman gladiator about to enter the ring. Today might be your last day. At the Archaeological Park Xanten in Germany, you can experience ancient Roman society hands on.

Just like spectators at modern-day sporting events, people who attended ancient Roman gladiator fights would have gotten hungry and might have even wanted to shop for little souvenirs ...

Staged gladiator fights will return to the Colosseum after 2,000 years, but the $1.5M deal has sparked debate over commercializing Rome's most sacred monument.

Neither “Gladiator” nor its cinematic sequel is particularly concerned with historical fact. For one thing, the emperor Marcus Aurelius had no intention of restoring the republic. Gladiatorial ...

Contrary to the "strength and honor" depicted in Hollywood films "Gladiator" and "Gladiator II," some ancient Romans considered gladiators the embodiment of amoral tyranny.