Download or read book Life as a Gladiator written by Michael Burgan and published by Raintree. This book was released on 2015-06-04 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gladiators, many of them slaves, entertained Roman audiences by fighting with tridents and swords in huge stadiums. Their fights often were to the death. Will you: Fight at the side of Spartacus during a violent gladiator rebellion? Leave your home and family to train at a gladiator school in Pompeii? Try to earn your freedom as a champion gladiator at the Roman Amphitheater?