Marcus Tullius Cicero used gladiators’ physiques not to celebrate the republic’s valiant heroes, but to deride their bloated muscles as the embodiment of amoral tyranny. But I’m most interested in how ...

Visitors to the Chiltern Open Air Museum over the May bank holiday weekend can see Roman gladiators in action.

Forget the Colosseum and what you've seen in the Gladiator film franchise - the latest evidence of ancient Roman brutality comes not from the heart of Italy, but from a quiet field in Yorkshire. A ...

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 ...