'Women fighting beasts in arena games are attested by the written sources, but no visual source is known to show their image,' author Alfonso Mañas wrote in the International Journal of the History of Sport.
A conversation with Ed Watts about his recent book, The Romans: A 2,000 Year History, which covers two millennia of Roman history, down to 1204 AD. We talk about questions of scale in writing history, of continuity and discontinuity in the Roman experience, and what enabled this polity to last for so long.
The exhibition, titled Gladiators: Heroes of the Colosseum, features remarkable artifacts like ancient bronze helmets, showcasing the intricacies of gladiatorial life and combat.
