In the trailer for Gladiator II, there is a hint that female fighters may be entering the Colosseum, leading many to wonder if female gladiators actually existed in Ancient Rome. Gladiator II is the ...
Although their existence is often overlooked, female gladiators fought, died and could even win their freedom from the Roman arena. In films like Gladiator, the depiction of Roman fighters within the ...
The following contains minor spoilers for "Gladiator II." Save for a few wisps of time-worn text and a bit of sharp-edged stone, little is left on this earth that tells the gladiatrix’s story. Thought ...
With the final instalment of The Hunger Games, antiquities expert Natalie Haynes looks at the true history of gladiators – including the women who took up the sword. As the final part of The Hunger ...
Female-gladiator fights appear to have been rare spectacles in the Roman Empire. But new analysis of a statue in a German museum adds to the evidence that trained women did fight to the death in ...
Sarah Fields, an Ohio State assistant professor in the College of Education and Human Ecology, turned a class research paper into the first book to examine legal issues surrounding women’s ...
A small bronze statue dating back nearly 2,000 years may be that of a female gladiator, a victorious one at that, suggests a new study. If confirmed the statue would represent only the second ...
With the final instalment of The Hunger Games, antiquities expert Natalie Haynes looks at the true history of gladiators – including the women who took up the sword. As the final part of The Hunger ...
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