she came across a floor covered with a stunning glass-and-stone mosaic of an exhausted gladiator staring at a slain opponent. The discovery had come too late in that year's expedition to pursue ...

Though we’ll probably never know the life story of the Roman gladiator discovered in York, for example, his ancestry and ...

They were written about by Roman naturalists, such as Pliny the Elder, and depicted in art including a well-preserved second-century BCE mosaic from Pompeii. The scenes in Gladiator 2 that depict ...