Gladiator

  • Wow … it seems like every newspaper has someone trotting down to the local ludus to play gladiator. This time its a mostly-touristy  piece in the Daily Mail about the Gruppo Storico Romano’s efforts in this regard in their little school “just off the Appian Way”: Rome breaks: The Colosseum of weekends for Alice Beer…

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  • Image via Wikipedia The Aspendos Gladiator School is planning to train Turkish oil wrestlers to re-enact the gladiator fights of ancient Rome in the southern Province of Antalya. The school is in the Serik district, which is also home to the ancient theater of Aspendos. The school covers 300 square meters near the site of…

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