Selected examples will be used to provide an overview of the various venues for gladiatorial combat in the Roman Empire. With Dr Rüdiger Gogräfe, Institute for Building Research and Documentation (IBD) in Marburg.

Three evenings, three films. Together with curators from the Archaeological State Collection, we travel to Hollywood and explore the question of how much history there really is in films about gladiators. Today: Spartacus (Stanley Kubrick)! Tickets

For a long time, there was considerable confusion about the who's who of gladiator types. This much can be revealed: what we see in films has little to do with the “real” past. With Dr Marcus Junkelmann, military historian, experimental archaeologist…

Three evenings, three films. Together with curators from the Archaeological State Collection, we travel to Hollywood and explore the question of how much history there really is in films about gladiators. Today: Gladiator I. (Ridley Scott)! Tickets

Three evenings, three films. Together with curators from the Archaeological State Collection, we travel to Hollywood and explore the question of how much history there really is in films about gladiators. Today: Gladiator II. (Ridley Scott)! Tickets

The amphitheatre and city walls marked the end of the major expansion phase of Roman Trier in the 2nd century AD. It was not until more than 100 years later that further large-scale buildings were constructed. With Dr Karl-Uwe Mahler, Head of the…

The ludus gladiatorius was both a barracks and a training centre. This lecture focuses on the training, nutrition and medical care of gladiators, as well as their ethos, careers and private lives. With Dr Marcus Junkelmann, military historian,…