Preface -- Publisher's acknowledgements -- Cultural context and origins of gladiatorial combat -- Recruitment and training of gladiators -- Gladiator games in action -- A brief history of gladiator games -- A brief history of the arena hunt -- The Roman amphitheatre and the colosseum -- Gladiators in film -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary
Roger Dunkle offers a fascinating and fair historical appraisal of gladiatorial combat, which will bring the games alive to the reader and help them see them through the eyes of the ancient Romans
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-385) and index
