Ancient athletic competitions shaped how people thought about beauty, the body, self-control, education and competition. For victorious gladiators, the outcast and the slave could paradoxically embody ...
Rome is undergoing a facelift for the pope's 2025 Jubilee celebrations, but a month before it starts, much of the Eternal City remains a building site.
However, as I discuss in my book, “Vitruvian Man: Rome Under Construction,” the gladiator represented something else altogether. The most famous martyr of the Roman republic – Marcus ... s wedding ...