Successful gladiators were the movie stars of the ... gladiatorial exhibitions in memory of the dead and by the time Julius Caesar was in charge, these exhibitions had become public spectacles.

The gladiators enter the arena on a boat as ... The first naumachia on record dates back to 46 B.C. and was authorized by Julius Caesar, and some of them were eventually staged in the Colosseum.

Roman proconsul Julius Caesar conducts a series of military campaigns ... public event in Ravenna and carefully examined plans for a gladiator school. Secretly, he had ordered his cohorts to ...