The scenes give you a factual image of what the Imperial city of Rome might have looked like in 180 AD. ... It then had a short lived period as an empire, and then returned back to being a republic. ... They had one son and two daughters together. ... The historical accuracies over-number the inaccuracies, and "The Gladiator" proves as great secondary source in telling this compelling tale. ... "The Gladiator" is a story about a game, a man, and the connection between the two. ...

• Word Count: 906
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Background: The ambitious and resentful Mettius of Alban sought to turn Rome's allies against the great City. ... The tales Brutus speaks enrage the citizens. ... Mettius is drawn between two chariots and mutilated before his troops. ... Assessment: The history of civilized people being as short as it is, relatively speaking, at the time of Livy's publishment, Romans were at a loss for the expectations of a great society. Through these stories and tales, an understanding of what became most important to these early peoples becomes clear. ...

• Word Count: 1291
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

By 216 BC the number of fights given on a single occasion had risen to twenty two.(Wilkinson p.16) In 105 BC the two consuls of the year made gladiatorial games official. ... Criminals sentenced to forced labor were often obliged to serve as gladiators, and were sentenced to three years of combat and two years in the schools. ... The number of days in each year given up to annual games and spectacles of one sort or another in the city was startlingly large, and increased continually. ... Myrmilliones carried a shield and a short scythe and wore a distinctive fish ornament on their helmets. ...

• Word Count: 3227
• Approx Pages: 13
• Grade Level: High School

He also founded the city of Cartagena, or as it was known in Rome, Carthago Nova.7 He discovered many silver mines in Spain, which financed Carthage's war until Spain was taken by Scipio Africanus. ... Then he turned his attention to a Greek port city of Saguntum, which had made itself a "friend of Rome" and therefore Rome was supposedly obliged to defend it. ... With two armies now decimated in successive years, Rome was in a pretty pickle. ... No one touched Hannibal until the next year.14 Sitting around and waiting for Hannibal to make a mistake is not a short term thing, and mos...

• Word Count: 3489
• Approx Pages: 14
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School