| He took part in gladiatorial contests and also fought wild beasts in the amphitheater. |
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| Without wanting to overdramatise it, it's probably the nearest thing we get these days to a gladiatorial contest. |
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| As in gladiatorial chariot races, the pace is furious and the tricks dirty. |
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| What we need is a gladiatorial contest between the representative champions of each political party. |
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| Yet another begins like a Caesarean pronouncement at an inaugural of a gladiatorial contest. |
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| Surrounded by a horseshoe of dazzling white marble terraces it has the appearance of a gladiatorial arena rather than an athletics stadium. |
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| Another chance to see the spectacular gladiatorial combat re-enactment by the gladiators of Britannia. |
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| Nero's participation in chariot racing, gladiatorial combats, and drama is the subject of the third chapter. |
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| Although gladiators were clearly Roman, the values presented in gladiatorial single combat were central to Greek culture as well as to Roman. |
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| Nearby is a vast Roman amphitheatre for gladiatorial conflicts, mock sea-battles, and the killing of wild animals captured in nearby Africa. |
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| Every night, it's gladiatorial slugfests and verbal duels to the death. |
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| All too often, the press, in focusing on European Council meetings, gives the impression of some gladiatorial combat between national interests. |
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| Ancient Romans pitted dogs against each other in gladiatorial contests. |
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| But match racing is a very different game, and their experience in one-on-one gladiatorial combat is very limited. |
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| These underground tunnels and rooms were in fact a bee hive of all the activity so vital for the gladiatorial games to be held. |
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| The Romans also had other events during the gladiatorial contests. |
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| Except for reading, stories tell that the Roman emperor used to watch the gladiatorial games using an emerald as a corrective lens. |
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| It now seems that the gladiatorial combats were in fact a genuine sport fought by highly trained volunteers. |
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| It was a gladiatorial fight to the death to settle a long running feud between the powerful Chattan and Mackay clans. |
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| This question is posed by many who watch women fighting in movies or gladiatorial shows. |
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| The emperor Néron looked at gladiatorial combats through one emerald, in belief that his view was whet there. |
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| It was expected of soldiers to watch gladiatorial fights to witness an example of bravery and fighting strength. |
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| Carter agues that the gladiatorial nature of rugby means children are encouraged to carry on when injured. |
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| The abolishing of gladiatorial fights or death sentence is viewed today as a progress. |
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| The museum next to the site of the huge Roman amphitheatre at El Djem, inTunisia, today echoes as of old to the sound of gladiatorial combat. |
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| The Colosseum was the greatest building in Ancient Rome but much smaller amphitheatres were built in Roman Britain and gladiatorial fights may have occurred in these. |
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| At this time, pepper and spices made their entrance, along with meat-eating, Bacchanalian orgies, gluttony, vomitoriums and the gladiatorial displays of cruelty. |
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| Debates are barbed and sometimes vicious especially during the gladiatorial spectacle of prime minister's questions. |
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| Each of these is further divided by levels that cover multiple sub-areas, spanning diverse locations such as gladiatorial coliseums and temple ruins. |
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| Of course football is sanctioned evil, the less sanctioned the more visceral and gladiatorial and exciting. |
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| The next phase of his life is being sold to a man who trains him as a gladiatorial pit fighter, where he learns the ways and glory of combat and gains his sense of self. |
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| These games included gladiatorial combats, chariot races and a sensational mock naval battle on the flooded grounds of the Colosseum. |
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| Or gladiatorial combat in the 2012 Olympic arena? |
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| The media too often focuses only on the Council, and especially the European Council, as if it is some sort of gladiatorial combat between countries. |
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| The Velodrome is the gladiatorial arena of French football. |
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| Natasha recounts the obvious military uses of the tuba for signaling, as well as music for funerals, private gatherings, public performances on the stage and large gladiatorial spectacles. |
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| They were used for gladiatorial contests, public displays, public meetings and bullfights, the tradition of which still survives in Spain. |
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| He is said to have risen with the crowd after gladiatorial matches and given unrestrained praise to the fighters. |
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| Commodus usually took part on gladiatorial combats, which often symbolized brutality and roughness. |
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| The Colisseum was built in the Imperial era to host, among other events, gladiatorial combats. |
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| After the end of gladiatorial games in the 5th century and of staged animal hunts in the 6th, most amphitheatres fell into disrepair. |
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| Originally capable of seating 60,000 spectators, it was used for gladiatorial combat. |
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| By the early sixth century, crucifixion had long since been abolished, and there were no longer gladiatorial shows or venationes involving victims. |
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| Bright-beady of eye, bony of cheek and jaw, scarred, toughened, broken and reknit, indestructible, grisly, gladiatorial as a hornet, he was a type neither new nor unfamiliar. |
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| Innovations were also introduced into the regular gladiatorial games such as naval contests, nighttime battles, and female and dwarf gladiator fights. |
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| There were several other activities to keep people engaged like chariot races, musical and theatrical performances, public executions and gladiatorial combat. |
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| In this court, advertisements for the theatre, or other announcements of general interest, were posted up, one of which, announcing a gladiatorial show, still remains. |
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| After the end of gladiatorial games in the 5th century and of animal killings in the 6th, most amphitheatres fell into disrepair, and their materials were mined or recycled. |
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| The resultant flood washed out a large gladiatorial exhibition held to commemorate the opening, causing Claudius to run for his life along with the other spectators. |
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