Thursday, 28 December 2017

ROME X GLADIATORS

Successful gladiators were the heroes of the day; and there were those, unlike the
impressed criminals and prisoners of war, who chose the precarious existence in the
hope of achieving fame and the admiration of women. It was a hard life, though, as well
as a dangerous one. The training was long and exacting; and, if the medical attention
and the meals supplied in the gladiatorial schools were adequate, the quarters in which
the men were lodged were usually cramped and foul

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