My kid is currently trying to work a paper he did on Spartacus into a presentation for his high school class and we were looking for video clips of gladiator training last night. More interesting, however, was coming across a documentary on Spartacus — online, and free at Top Documentary Films — with Barry Strauss as the academic. It is really well done:
… for the record, I have had the Top Documentary Films site ‘in the queue’ for quite a while now, but didn’t know about this particular video. I’ll be posting other documentaries from time to time (I do like to preview them).