Gladiators Return to the Colosseum.

[Gaius Paulinus Maximus]

They came. They saw. They slaughtered. And now, almost 2,000 years after fighters and wild animals last entertained the rabble, gladiators are set to return to the Colosseum.

 

Umberto Broccoli, the head of archaeology at Rome city council, said it was time that the five million people who visited the Colosseum annually saw the kind of shows originally staged there. They should also experience "the sights, sounds and smells" of Ancient Rome.

 

Mauro Cutrufo, the deputy mayor, said that a series of events would be held next year to mark the two thousandth anniversary of the birth of the Emperor Vespasian, who began the construction of the Colosseum.

 

 

 

 

 

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/worl...icle5369754.ece

 

This I would love to see.

[Lost_Warrior]

See it? I wanna fight in it!!!

 

 

That is so awesome.

[caldrail]

Interestingly, the operators of gladiatorial re-eanctment schools who let people experience 'arena combat' tell us the germans are by far the most competitive of their customers, and that other nationalities tend to be much less aggressive.

 

I suspect, much as happened two thousand years ago, the relaity of 'fighting' in these schools is going to suprise its entrants. You have been warned !