Its geometric style depicts an organist and horn player and various gladiator and hunting contests – there’s a javelin thrower with a panther, a tiger versus a wild mule, a lion and his keeper, three ...

For the first time, bite marks made by a large cat, possibly an African lion, have been identified on the bones of what is believed to be an ancient Roman gladiator. Artists have long depicted Roman ...

(Reuters) -In Rome's Colosseum and other amphitheaters in cities scattered across the sprawling ancient Roman Empire, gladiatorial spectacles were not merely human-versus-human affairs. Gladiators ...

In our modern-day world, we’re constantly inundated with different entertainment mediums – whether it’s a flashy Instagram post on your feed or the latest star-studded blockbuster to hit the theaters, ...

The British Museum's “Gladiators of Britain,” now at the Grosvenor Museum, sheds fresh light on the realities of spectacle in the northern reaches of the Roman Empire. A tinned, bronze gladiator’s ...

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 ...