Gladiatorial

And for the competitors in the new winter Love Island, the gladiatorial history will not be lost on them as they battle each other in the knockout series to see which couple are the last two left standing.

He said the utterance was a gladiatorial challenge directed at the judiciary, and by implication, the rest of the democratic polity.

I love gladiatorial matches, but watching the father of your children in a physical fight is not the most pleasant feeling," she continued.

It gets its name from a series of mosaics depicting gladiatorial combats near its main courtyard.

It stars as a Roman army general who's betrayed and forced to fight in gladiatorial combat, all the while plotting his revenge.

Those incisions set things up for Cummins to deliver a brutal, gladiatorial spell under the late evening Sydney floodlight, like a sharpshooter making early headway for the arrival of an armoured division.

Some were perhaps authors of the gladiatorial graffiti still legible on Pompeii’s walls.

The Grandmaster's palace in Thor: Ragnarok showcases his former gladiatorial champions.

Even in the gladiatorial-style battle of wits so beloved of modern TV, he made these titans of the political interview look mediocre, shallow and out of touch.

If this is the case, then it is a ratification of the wild rumours suggesting that he will be kept abridged ahead of the 2023 ‘’gladiatorial’’ contest.

It appeals to that gladiatorial lust for punishment as an entertainment, which costs spectators nothing.

But the first round in the gladiatorial ring has already gone in favour of the Congress, particularly Mr. Siddaramaiah.

Crozier also looked for ideas from the movie (2010 version), where a hacker is sucked into a computer and forced to play gladiatorial games for survival, and Battlestar Galactica, in which a highly advanced cybernetic species is at war with humanity.

I think immediately after, The Ring of Fire, the gladiatorial arena, Arthur was going to be thrown into basically an Atlantian supermax in the bowels of the city.

IтАЩd pay to see that kind of gladiatorial encounter.

Commodus the gladiator Commodus also had a passion for gladiatorial combat, which he took so far as to take to the arena himself, dressed as a gladiator.

Compensation could be "some fifty times higher than the lease price" of the gladiator; see M. J. Carter, "Gladiatorial Combat: The Rules of Engagement", The Classical Journal, Vol. 102, No. 2 (Dec.

Enormous gladiatorial shows were also held.

Gladiatorial games, usually linked with beast shows, spread throughout the Republic and beyond.

He advanced into Italy at the head of a licentious and rough soldiery, and Rome became the scene of riot and massacre, gladiatorial shows and extravagant feasting.