Key Takeaways Gladiators only fought 2-3 times annually, spending most of their time training intensively in gladiator ...
The Milan Cortina Olympics ended Sunday with a closing ceremony inside the ancient Roman amphitheater, Verona Arena.
A city forever associated with Romeo and Juliet, Verona will host the final act of the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics on ...
Many are drawn to the Colosseum in Rome because of its connection with gladiators, perhaps wondering what it must have been ...
Archaeologists in Switzerland have uncovered the ruins of a Roman-era amphitheater — possibly the youngest on record — where spectators likely watched gladiator fights and animal hunts with bated ...
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Thumbs up, thumbs down - Roman gladiator gestures explained

The popular idea that thumbs up meant mercy and thumbs down meant death is a modern misconception. Ancient references describe a turned thumb gesture associated with killing, while mercy may have been ...
The lifestyle of elite professional sportsmen in ancient Greece and Rome was comparable to that of a celebrity today.
Instead of depicting the Trojan War from Homer’s Iliad as originally deduced, the mosaic may actually be a reference to the ...
The Romans associated pants with barbarism and eventually banned them, but the legwear eventually became commonplace ...