![]() “How do you make sure people don’t revolt?” she asked. In fact, Gracelyn said one in four was a slave. Here are some myths that stand corrected: 1) Tickets were sold to the gladiator gamesĪncient Rome was rich but most Romans were poor. It wasn’t nearly as violent as the real thing. Forget what you saw in the movie “Gladiator.” It was accurate but didn’t tell the whole story. ![]() At the final stop at the Colosseum, tour guide Gracelyn Monaco blew away a lot of myths people have about the famed gladiators. ![]() Over 3.5 hours, it started with tours of the Roman Forum and Palatine Hill. I also learned a lot about gladiators from books, particularly Daniel Mannix’s excellent tome from 1958, “The Way of the Gladiator.” However, I learned even more from Through Eternity’s Ultimate Colosseum Tour with ancient Rome. In the colosseum in suburban Sutri, I pretended to die in front of about 1,000 people - while prone on the ground trying to pull my one-size-fits-all tunic over my underwear. I spent two months in a school training twice a week, doing highly choreographed fight scenes we later performed for tourists and locals around Rome. ![]() When I lived in Rome the first time, from 2001-03, I worked as a freelance travel writer and once gave myself an assignment that just wrote itself: gladiator school. ![]()
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