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By the Sword: A History of Gladiators, Musketeers, Samurai, Swashbucklers, and Olympic Champions
by Richard A. Cohen
(Hardcover - November 2002)

Cruelty and Civilization: The Roman Games
by Roland Auguet
Paperback: 222 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.68 x 8.51 x 5.45
Routledge; ISBN: 041510453X; Reprint edition (May 1994)

Emperors and Gladiators
by Thomas Wiedemann
(Paperback - August 1995)

Gladiators and Caesars: The Power of Spectacle in Ancient Rome
by Eckart Kohne (Editor), et al
Book Description Bread and circuses were what the Romans demanded of their emperors, and for more than 500 years spectacular events in amphitheaters, circuses, and theaters were the most important leisure activities of the masses in all parts of the Roman empire. In Rome itself, public holidays featuring magnificent and costly shows occupied more than half the year. Comedies and tragedies, pantomimes and bawdy folk plays were staged in the theaters, while in the arena of the Colosseum, opened in a.d. 80,...
Paperback: 160 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.51 x 11.87 x 9.56 
Publisher: University of California Press; (December 1, 2000) 
ISBN: 0520227980 

The Gladiator: The Secret History of Rome's Warrior Slaves
by Alan Baker
(Paperback - October 2002)

Gladiator
by Richard Watkins (Author)
Reading level: Ages 9-12
Hardcover: 80 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.49 x 10.86 x 9.02
Houghton Mifflin Co; ISBN: 039582656X; (September 29, 1997)

Gladiator: The Making of the Ridley Scott Epic (Newmarket Pictorial Moviebooks)
by Ridley Scott (Introduction), et al
(Paperback - November 2000)

Gladiators: 100 BC - AD 200 (Warrior, 39)
by Stephen Wisdom, Angus McBride (Illustrator)
(Paperback - October 2001)

Lift the Lid on Gladiators
by Philip Wilkinson
(Hardcover - July 2002)

Roman Britain: Outpost of the Empire
by Howard H. Scullard
Listed under Ancient Britain

Secret Worlds: Gladiators (Secret Worlds)
by John Malam
(Hardcover)

Spartacus
by Howard Fast
Historical novel first published in the 1950s.
Paperback: 372 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.80 x 9.00 x 6.03
M.E.Sharpe; ISBN: 156324599X; Reprint edition (October 1996)

Spartacus and Slave Wars
by Shaw
(Paperback - December 2000)

Spartacus and the Slave Wars: A Brief History With Documents
(Bedford Series in History and Culture)
by Brent D. Shaw (Translator)
(Hardcover - February 2001)

Spartacus
by James Lewis Mitchell, et al
(Paperback)

The Way of the Gladiator
by Daniel P. Mannix
Reprint of Those About to Die, an entertaining but largely fictional account of the Roman Games. Db.
(Paperback - February 2001)

Gladiators at Pompeii
by Luciana Jacobelli
(Hardcover - November 2003) 

Gladiator: Life and Death in Ancient Rome
by John Malam (Library Binding - August 2002) 

Gladiators
by Michael Grant
One of the better books on the subject.
(Hardcover - May 1996) 
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Gladiators
by Arthur Koestler
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