Alice Maximummius ; Alice Beer Gets to Grips with Gladiator School During a Family Jaunt to Rome
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I HAVE always been deeply suspicious of men who, come the weekend, trade jeans and sweatshirts for historical fighting dress and head off to a barren hill to reconstruct some bygone battle. Would I be less disturbed by a grown Italian man in full gladiatorial regalia, I wondered? Well, I was about to find out at the Gruppo Storico Romano, a small site about a mile outside Rome, and truly 'just off the Appian Way', where people flock to learn the art of gladiatorial combat.
The school is apparently close to the original site of a gladiator training ground from 2,000 years ago. However, it has taken no mean amount of creativity to turn a couple of barns off a gravelled drive into a gladiator school. As we arrived early one Saturday morning our six-year-old twin daughters, Dora and Phoebe, were not sure whether to be excited or terrified at the bizarre arena in front of them. I became falsely jolly, pretending this was all very normal.See the full content of this document
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Alice Maximummius ; Alice Beer Gets to Grips with Gladiator School During a Family Jaunt to Rome
We had flown to Rome for a long weekend, stealing a day from school on the understanding that this experience would enhance and enliven a whole section of the National Curriculum.
There are so many options for flights to Rome that we were able to time our flight perfectly and, after three hours of picnic and iPods on easyJet, we...See the full content of this document
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