Gladiators and Rome

The Ancient Roman civilization can be portrayed in many ways. It can be shown as a place of elegance, high culture and civilization, the model of civilized life, but when we look deeper, it shows a world of violence and murder, one which is debatably the most terrible of it's time. Of course, I speak of the gladiators. They were prisoners of war, slaves and criminals. And every so often, and emperor, senator or a lady would participate, though such an immoral act would be vulgar and they would be ridiculed, for the participants in the games were revered as scum. Its is not as it is shown i…