Roman Gladiators reenactment gallery
- Roman gladiators were sport stars of Ancient world
- A reenactment of roman gladiators fighting
- Gladiators were given the best care in order to win as many battles. In fact they, as slaves, had better privileges than most citizens of Rome
- Gladiators usually fought one on one, but there were fights in which more fighters participated. Here we see a "free-for-all" battle.
- Gladiators used a wide array of weapons and armor
- Gladiator using a Gladius, standard Roman army sword
- Although they had good privileges and care, gladiators didn't have freedom
- A gladiator that refused to obey was usually punished by death
- Gladiator Spartacus started a famous slave revolt in which gladiators fought the Roman army
- Gladiators were eventually defeated and many of them were sentenced to death as a revenge
- Gladiator fights were eventually outlawed when Christianity became the mainstream religion in Rome