Roman historian Suetonius records that the emperor Domitian made female gladiators ... and TV shows featuring gladiators understandably concentrate on the sight of two warriors fighting each ...

Not much information exists about Roman women ... the other hand, female slaves were common and filled a huge variety of roles, from ladies’ maids to farm workers, and even gladiators.

The first reports of gladiators (the name comes from the type of sword they used: the gladius) appears around 264BCE, 2300 years ago, back when Rome was still a republic and didn’t have an ...

Successful gladiators were the movie stars of the first ... gladiatorial contests are often seen as the dark side of Roman civilization. Given they belonged to such a civilized and sophisticated ...