“Then one of Callatas's pet monsters killed your wife, and two years later, you're fighting as a gladiator in the Ring of Cyrica and preparing to get yourself killed.”

“He handled a curling iron with the flair of a gladiator wielding a mighty sword.”

“I am a gladiator for peace and justice.”

“We view huge bulls bellowing like gladiators and bow-legged, skinny-bottomed cowboys in chaps, nonchalantly smoking roll-ups.”

“Although gladiators were clearly Roman, the values presented in gladiatorial single combat were central to Greek culture as well as to Roman.”

“For centuries historians believed the tesserae had been worn by gladiators on a chain or cord around their necks.”