PBS

An Everyday Roman Object Suggests Female Gladiators

A Roman oil lamp shows two female gladiators fighting like men—strong visual proof women fought. An ordinary Roman oil lamp shows two gladiators with unmistakably female features, fighting in the same ...
PBS

A Roman Satirist Mocked Female Fighters. Was He Describing Real Gladiators?

Secrets of the Dead is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire Tablet, Roku, Samsung Smart TV, ...
Observer

This Traveling Exhibition in the U.K. Recasts Gladiators as More Than Sacrificial Lambs

The British Museum's “Gladiators of Britain,” now at the Grosvenor Museum, sheds fresh light on the realities of spectacle in the northern reaches of the Roman Empire. A tinned, bronze gladiator’s ...
The Conversation

Gladiator II: historians on the fate of the real Roman royalty featured in the film

Warning: this article contains spoilers for Gladiator II. Twenty-four years after Gladiator, Ridley Scott has returned with a sweeping sequel to his epic tale. Thanks to cutting-edge CGI, Rome’s ...
The New York Times

Gladiator Movies Aren’t Telling the Real Story About Rome

Dr. Racette-Campbell, a classics professor at the University of Winnipeg, is the author of “The Crisis of Masculinity in the Age of Augustus.” For a modern audience, it’s tempting to valorize the ...