Although their final outcomes may have been brutal, ancient Roman gladiators fought like gentlemen, according to new research. |
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Yet gladiators must frequently have met their intimate fellows in mortal combat. |
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Was there a sense that someone might have a stable of gladiators that he's trained up in order to go into contest? |
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For, like ancient Rome and its gladiators, today's cities play host to colourful spectacles, marches, processions et al. |
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Yesterday, however, the players once again fought like gladiators and deserved at least a point. |
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Successful gladiators are those who not only sate the crowd's desire for blood, but do so in an entertaining fashion. |
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The glare of the floodlights focussed on the gladiators engaged in the middle, the arena one grand spectacle, the game fierce and engaging. |
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The Romans' idea of a great evening was to watch gladiators hack each other apart, and then top it off with a drunken orgy. |
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Another chance to see the spectacular gladiatorial combat re-enactment by the gladiators of Britannia. |
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For centuries historians believed the tesserae had been worn by gladiators on a chain or cord around their necks. |
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We view huge bulls bellowing like gladiators and bow-legged, skinny-bottomed cowboys in chaps, nonchalantly smoking roll-ups. |
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From our seats we view huge bulls bellowing like gladiators and bowlegged, skinny-bottomed cowboys in chaps nonchalantly smoking rollups. |
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The ancient Romans ended large meals by chewing sprigs of peppermint, and modern research supports those digestion gladiators. |
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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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We buy and sell football players, as if they were servile gladiators in Ancient Rome. |
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He shows that gladiators who fought in the arena were treated much differently from those condemned to die in any number of spectacular ways. |
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The two gladiators of Italian politics have entered the colosseum. |
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Telling Verus' story takes viewers into his world, showing how gladiators really fought and trained and how the greatest amphitheatre of all was built. |
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A place of spectacles in the highest sense of the word where gladiators and convicts brave wild animals in a sanguinary battle. |
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You will be able to see fights between gladiators, contests in historical swordplay, magic shows, jousting and performances with horses. |
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In the classically austere traditions of the republic, its gladiators found the ideals to keep their enthusiasm on the high plane of the great historical tragedy. |
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I found girls who had been pirates, gladiators, I wanted young girls to know they could do whatever was on their mind. |
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With up to 10 million internet chess fans looking on, the old gladiators went into battle. |
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Among hostile fellow gladiators, he will have to fight for his life and maybe see his wife again some day, but also please his new masters. |
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The shows were held that there were several: the fighting of the gladiators, pantomime, but also executions of death sentences. |
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Bull Terriers are dedicated and courageous dogs that are nothing less than the gladiators of the dog world. |
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Its huge arena is impressive and shows the greatness of Rome at the time of gladiators. |
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Help Jedi Anakin prove his skills and defeat the evil Asajj Ventress on the sand of gladiators, th. |
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The Colosseum was without doubt the preferred place by the Romans to assist to spectacles of gladiators, naval battles, sacrifices, huntings. |
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The gladiators enter the arena, snarling and cursing each other. |
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This is especially applied to those players engaged in team sports where you have to engage others, comparable to throwing gladiators into the arena. |
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Home run sluggers are certainly the gladiators of the baseball diamond. |
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Entertainment was provided by acrobats, clowns and sometimes gladiators. |
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The ancient Romans are often seen as bringing civilisation to the western world, but they regarded the slaying of gladiators as a normal form of entertainment. |
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It promises to throw new light on the way gladiators fought and trained. |
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Some of the surviving captives are reported to have been among the rebelling gladiators in the Third Servile War. |
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Batiatus lets them select their gladiators. |
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Actors, gladiators and courtesans lived in the Suburra. The most ill-famed of places such as taverns and dark alleys were also located there, providing ideal theatres for crimes and mischief. |
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The Eleven Arches project draws on the success of the Puy du Fou theme park in France, known for impeccably choreographed historical shows that involve Viking raids, Roman gladiators and breathtaking special effects. |
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For six years after their first encounter, these two great gladiators played more than 140 games in their world championship battles: Karpov won a total of 19, Kasparov 21, with the remainder drawn. |
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For those with an interest in slaves, freedmen, gladiators, Roman food, the forum, theatres, or even graffiti, this work will bring the ancient world of Pompeii to life. |
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They are strikingly lifelike and seem to symbolise the upcoming battle between two gloved gladiators that is set to enthral boxing and finally unify two versions of the world super-middleweight title. |
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Architectural marvel of antiquity and symbol of the Eternal City throughout the world, the Flavian Amphitheatre is the largest structure for entertainment with gladiators and wild animals ever built by the Romans. |
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The gladiators themselves, a helmeted myrmillo and a retiary with his net, sculpted by Gérôme in 1878, are life-sized versions of the two gladiators he had painted six years before. |
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Inflatable structures: human babyfoot, mechanical bull riding, sumo wrestling, horizontal bungee, gladiators, fly catching, boxing ring, equalizer. |
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Wherever Lazio and Roma lie in the table, these modern-day gladiators can be guaranteed to set about each other with fierce intent on the Stadio Olimpico turf. |
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In 80 AD for the opening ceremony of this millenial symbol which could contain 55000 people, games were organised during 100 days and during which 9000 wild animals and 2000 gladiators died. |
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Some women trained as gymnasts and dancers, and a rare few as female gladiators. |
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Huge crowds gathered at the Colosseum to watch events like gladiators, combats between men, or fights between men and wild animals. |
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To mark the opening of the Colosseum, the emperor Titus presented 100 days of arena events, with 3,000 gladiators competing on a single day. |
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Roman fascination with gladiators is indicated by how widely they are depicted on mosaics, wall paintings, lamps, and even graffiti drawings. |
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Like gladiators, entertainers were infames in the eyes of the law, little better than slaves even if they were technically free. |
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My mother prepared herself for the evening with the same somber deliberateness of the gladiators in Spartacus. |
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Mecha gladiators battle in a decaying factory. |
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For the occasion a few gladiators had come to spice it up a bit! |
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Actress Vanessa, 26, gives a master class in boho in ripped shorts, floaty top and gladiators. |
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A ground-breaking exhibition focusing on gladiators and their world. |
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Hollywood actress Vanessa, 26, gives a masterclass in boho chic wearing ripped shorts, floaty top and gladiators. |
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The history of the perfume merges with the French history and goes up even beyond: as of the Romain empire one used the lavender to scent the linen and the body of the gladiators. |
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All three gourmet gladiators wowed the judges with their unique take on the mystery ingredient from the Fresh from Florida pantry, the Florida hogfish. |
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Each fight lasts for just over a minute, after which the owners who sit inside the fighting arena rush to restrain their respective hooved gladiators. |
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An example of such influence would be Galen, the most influential practitioner of surgical or anatomical practices that he performed while attending to gladiators at Pergamon. |
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Also new this year, come face to face with the gladiators at the York Dungeon and explore the cave of cannibal Sawney Bean at the Edinburgh Dungeon. |
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Once it became obvious that Sulla was going to defy the law and seize Rome by force, Marius attempted to organize a defense of the city using gladiators. |
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