Gladiators. Battle for life, glory and freedom

More than 200 colorful illustrations, full -color photographs and detailed maps (some of which are published for the first time) from a specialist in Warm -cultures of antiquity and the Middle Ages.
This first and one of a kind book describes in such detail life, diet, weapons, tactics, training and the performances of the gladiators that you can transfer to the Colosseum and become a spectator of a bloody show, an unimaginably tickling nerves - this mixture of the theater, sports and murders ... Different types of gladiators, their evolution with the development of a spectacle, which is not inferior to modern, detailed description of the technical miracle - Coliseum, and the cultures of Ancient Rome, still exciting mind.
What was the sight if a friend of St. Augustine, a moral Christian, became a furious fan of gladiatorial games after the first visit?! Find out for yourself