Those Who Are About To Die: Gladiators and the Roman Mind by Harry Sidebottom Groundswell Speaker 2024 Cristina Fernández Cubas

Cristina Fernández Cubas

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It is a joyful collision of colour

Immediately he is transported back almost twenty years to his student days in Tokyo

Those Who Are About To Die: Gladiators and the Roman Mind by Harry Sidebottom Groundswell Speaker 2024 Cristina Fernández CubasDressed in armour and clutching a bloody sword, the Roman gladiator is the most iconic figure of the ancient world. Both fascinating and repulsive to us now, he was in his own time a deeply controversial character, by turns hated and idealized and always at the heart of Roman culture. But what did he really mean to the Romans? What did they see in the gladiator and the spectacle of the games? And what does he reveal to us today about the Roman way of