The foremost of these was the gladius, a type of short sword, though it is important to note that the Latin word “gladius” ...

The first reports of gladiators (the name comes from the type of sword they used: the gladius) appears around 264BCE, 2300 years ago, back when Rome was still a republic and didn’t have an ...

There were different types of soldiers in the Roman army ... Julia discovers a fragment of metal - part of a Roman sword, called a gladius. Julia describes how the gladius was a standard part ...