Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. But I’m most interested in how the two films misrepresent the way Roman gladiators and their bodies were viewed by their ...

Here are five misconceptions which are sometimes held about the gladiators of Ancient Rome.  The common image of the gladiator is of a man in particular being in the arena, as emphasized by ...

We always wonder about historic diets and how they affected people. To prepare for battle, Roman gladiators used to eat this porridge every single day.

The Roman Empire is famous for its arenas like the Colosseum where gladiators fought each other in gory skirmishes. But were any of these gladiators ever women? Several lines of evidence, including ...

Gladiators only fought 2-3 times annually, spending most of their time training intensively in gladiator schools called ludus. Their diet was predominantly vegetarian, featuring barley-based meals ...

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 ...

Pliny the Elder's writings are among the most well-known of this practice; indeed, Pliny stated that gladiator blood was “like the draught of life.” However we know that Pliny did not recommend ...

When the founder of the Roman Empire settles on his “dignified honorific” – Augustus means “the revered one” – Agrippa ...

Gritty streets, noisy markets, and unvarnished sex make this HBO Rome feel lived in rather than staged.

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 contests ...