While gladiators may have used unique weapons, they also used implements of war that were more familiar throughout the Roman ...

Such a spectacle has always been considered quintessentially Roman by ... given simple weapons and zero training. But as the tradition evolved, gladiators were provided with armor and had skills ...

Bloody, brutal but popular, gladiatorial contests are often seen as the dark side of Roman ... gladiators became more specialized. There were five types of gladiator, each with their own unique ...

Gladiators came ... from the lower echelons of Roman society. Some of the earliest were prisoners of war, who fought wearing their own culture's traditional armour. Later, criminals were sometimes ...

Regardless, the discovery adds a fresh twist to Roman history as the ... with heavily armored gladiators ('secutors') facing those bearing lighter armor ('retiarius'). At venues, gladiatorial ...

they had the best weapons and the best armour. When the Romans invaded Britain, their army was so good that it took on armies 10 times its size and won! Most soldiers in the Roman Empire came from ...