Ancient Roman entertainment was more than just bloody gladiator games! Learn about the Roman sports and Roman theater that ...
Much like modern-day football hooliganism, gladiator fandom could be weaponised in intercommunal violence. In a 59BC gladiatorial show, Pompeians murderously assaulted their neighbours from Nuceria ...
A massive walkable sewage system was found in the Hellenistic city of Stratonikeia, known as the "City of Gladiators," in ...
Ancient athletic competitions shaped how people thought about beauty, the body, self-control, education and competition. For victorious gladiators, the outcast and the slave could paradoxically embody ...
Did Jewish gladiators even exist? But many have occupied themselves with questions about the role of Jews in ancient Rome’s famous ... as opposed to sports games where they did pagan rituals ...
The ancient sewage system, discovered in the historic city of Stratonikeia in Mugla, Turkey, dates back around 2,250 years to ...
Posca Hydrate - the original sports drink of the ancient world - has launched Down Under, reinvented by previous SAS ...
Those peanuts and hot dogs you grab from a vendor at a sporting event are part of a centuries-old snacking tradition dating ...