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Those About to Die: The Roman Arena
By Daniel P. MannixFrom $17.00 USD
Daniel Mannix's 1958 classic was the source material for the original Gladiator film and the 2024 Peacock series of the same name. Lurid in places but built on close reading of Roman sources, and still the most readable single-volume introduction to gladiator history.
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📄 192 pages⏱ ~2 hr read📅 2001
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Daniel Mannix's 1958 classic was the source material for the original Gladiator film and the 2024 Peacock series of the same name. Lurid in places but built on close reading of Roman sources, and still the most readable single-volume introduction to gladiator history.
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