In Gladiator, this line is spoken by Marcus Aurelius — the wise emperor whose philosophy shapes the heart of the film. “Death ...

Bite marks on a 1,800-year-old skeleton from Roman Britain suggest that a gladiator was mauled to death by a large cat, possibly a lion, a new study reports. However, scholars who were not involved ...

Ancient Greeks prepared Roman gladiators for violent contests, although these were quite different from the Olympics the ...

Several lines of evidence, including historical records and artistic depictions, suggest that female gladiators did exist in ...