Tours book up quickly, so reserve one in advance. For many kids, a highlight of a trip to Rome is battling in an arena Gladiator School. Visits start with a brief lesson about the history of ...

The gladiators lived in special schools where they trained for their ... pay for the funerals of fallen comrades. The Colosseum in Rome: History's most famous amphitheatre The amphitheatre could ...

In the morning, gladiators were released from their cells and brought to the school's practice arena ... He was a deeply unpopular emperor who ruled Rome until his assassination in 192 AD.

The few lucky ones would survive years in the arena and retire. Some would then become instructors at gladiator training schools, controlled by the state so that they couldn’t be used to train ...