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The Gladiators: History's Most Deadly Sport | 
 enlarge | Author: Fik Meijer
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
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Pages: 288
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Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.4 x 0.9
ISBN: 0312364024
Dewey Decimal Number: 937
EAN: 9780312364021
ASIN: 0312364024
Publication Date: March 6, 2007
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Superfit, muscled, and macho, gladiators were hero-worshipped for their skills and courage as they fought to the death, yet despised for their humble status. For over six cruel centuries, tens of thousands died in the blood soaked arenas of Rome and its colonies, watched by enthralled crowds screaming for violence. Professor Fik Meijer has ingeniously pieced together their true stories from contemporary evidence, describing the gladiators' origins, daily life, training, and the odds of their survival pitted against their legions of fans' lust for blood and spectacle.
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EXCELLENT WORK - VERY INFORMATIVE AND READABLE March 22, 2006
15 out of 16 found this review helpful
The author has presented us with a very readable and informative account of Rome's gladiators. This work seems quite well researched and is very well illustrated by black and white photographs. The author's style is quite readable and, like all well written popular history, does not bog the reader down with endless meaningless dates, although he does do a very nice job of chronology. This work is well organized and gives quite good descriptions of the various types of gladiators, the animals fought and interestingly, the social status of the various gladiators. The author has done a very nice job of presenting what little we know of the origins of this particular institution. I particularly enjoyed the point the author makes (a belief I have held for a number of years) that we are not as far from those barbaric times as we would like to think ourselves. The author builds a very good case for this. I suppose if it was forty years ago and I were a graduate student, I might want a work which is more formal, but for my needs, at this time, this well fit the bill. The book is a fast read which could almost be classified as a page turner if it were a different genre. Recommend this one highly. Thank you Prof. Meijer. Don Blankenship, The Ancientreader
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