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It's the world's only gladiator school - where modern man can learn the savage arts of Roman combat.Let battle commence, says MARTIN NEWLAND
JUST outside the ancient walls of Rome, on the Via Appia Antica just opposite the place where the great slave warrior Spartacus was crucified, is a small, potholed road leading to the Scuola Gladiatori Roma, the world's only genuine gladiator school. Run by the Gruppo Storico Romano, a society dedicated to preserving the culture and history of ancient Rome, the school offers training in gladiatorial disciplines and Roman history to around 3,000 adults and children each year.See the full content of this document
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Call Me Spartacus
Obviously, with the children, things are more educational than confrontational, but for adults on the look out for a shield- bashing, swordclanging, trident-poking fight, this is the place to come.
I have always been a lover of Roman sword and shield epics, from Quo Vadis to Spartacus to Ridley Scott's definitive Gladiator, in which Russell Crowe's Maximus battles against inconceivable odds before dispatching the evil emperor Commodus.I love martial arts, knives, guns and war. I grew up building Airfix war planes and have read everyt...See the full content of this document
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