Gladiator: Orgy Of Death: The Unexpurgated Text

Gladiatorial combat formed the seminal experience and spectacle of the Roman Empire - its regime of all-out bloodshed, mutilation and decapitation allowed the Empire to flourish with ever-more innovative slaughterhouse-spectacles designed to propel their audiences' corporeal and sensory experiences beyond all boundaries. Those combats exacted extreme ritualistic discipline and subservience from both fighters and audiences, so that the arenas in which combat took place formed worlds apart in...