This is the scene of the last fresco found in the Regio V section of Pompeii not far from the barracks of the gladiators.
Recent research published in the scientific journalĀ PLOS ONE investigated the diet of Roman gladiators in the second and third centuries A.D. and were able to determine the diet of the gladiators and what appears to have been a Roman era energy drink. Continue reading “Gladiators drank the Roman equivalent of Red Bull”