Musicians announce their approach. The roar of the crowd and the noise of music can be heard outside the arena and even in distant neighborhoods of the city. Dressed in magnificent rented costumes the gladiators descend from their litters for the first and perhaps the last time. Seated in the state in the tribunes, magnates, […]
ROMAN GLADIATORS IN EPHESOS WERE ON A VEGETABLE DIET
The analysis made on Roman gladiators bones buried in Ephesus shows that they might have been vegetarians, according to the news published in Plos One. In a study by the Department of Forensic Medicine at the Medical University of Vienna in cooperation with the Department of Anthropology at the Institute of Forensic Medicine at the […]