This amphitheater, in which gladiatorial contests took place, could seat about 3,500 spectators.

Nor, really, about the fixing of a gladiatorial contest, though that was an annoyance.

The deaths brought comparisons between board track racing and Roman gladiatorial contests.

They invade a planet and take part in a gladiatorial contest to become ruler.

"More like a Roman gladiatorial contest," she whispered back.

For him this gladiatorial contest was even greater sport.

He was made a slave, pitted in gladiatorial contests against others considered grotesque.

The amphitheater was used for gladiatorial contests and other entertainments.

And yet it was still bloody, a gladiatorial contest like no other.

Rome's own gladiatorial contests began some 40 years later.