Gladiators is a comprehensive analysis of the gladiatorial spectacle from its origins; its religious foundations and ties to politics in the late Roman republic, to its development as a mass spectacle in the Imperial age. This is an exceptional, comprehensively documented work that offers the reader a global, sociological and historical perspective of the first mass-phenomenon in the history of humanity.
From the private lives of gladiators to the architecture of the Coliseums. This is the first book to explore the greatest mass-spectacle of the ancient world; The Gladiators.