Thought to have battled during the first and second centuries C.E., she is much more elusive than her male counterpart, the gladiator, who has been venerated thousands of times — through art ...

Female-gladiator fights appear to have been ... The figure's lowered head and raised arm—"a typical victory gesture of gladiators" in Roman art—instead suggest a gladiator standing over ...

A small bronze statue dating back nearly 2,000 years may be that of a female gladiator, a victorious ... did in fact go into the arena without a warrior's helmet so that people could see her ...

In a bizarre cross between an elaborate role-playing game and warrior aerobics, bankers, bakers, history buffs and tourists learn the ancient art ... women have already worked their way up to ...

The team hopes to eventually perform a similar analysis on bones from the gladiator graveyard in Carnuntum, in a further attempt to explore the real lives of these ancient warriors.