The foremost of these was the gladius, a type of short sword, though it is important to note that the Latin word “gladius” simply means sword; the labeling of the specific weapon is a modern ...

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 ...

There were different types of soldiers in the Roman army ... Julia discovers a fragment of metal - part of a Roman sword, called a gladius. Julia describes how the gladius was a standard part ...