Becoming a gladiator was a lowly position, no matter how you came into it, so any woman who found herself there likely felt extreme shame. Roman satirist Juvenal describes the arena through ...

With the gladiatrix banned by Septimius Severus in 200 C.E., blotted from Roman history, and overlooked in both “Gladiator II” and its predecessor, it seems we’re still not ready for a woman ...