Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. But I’m most interested in how the two films misrepresent the way Roman gladiators and their bodies were viewed by their ...

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Gladiators only fought 2-3 times annually, spending most of their time training intensively in gladiator schools called ludus. Their diet was predominantly vegetarian, featuring barley-based meals ...

But I’m most interested in how the two films misrepresent the way Roman gladiators and their bodies were viewed by their republic-minded contemporaries. In the films, the brawny biceps of gladiators ...