Gladiadores, bestias y condenados : Las crónicas brutales del Coliseo

We left the theater after seeing Gladiator 2 and the question lingered in everyone's mind: were the spectacles in the Colosseum really like that? The only way to know is by reading the accounts of those who witnessed them firsthand, seated in the amphitheater's stands or from the arena floor itself. This book offers, for the first time in the publishing world, a compilation of the most raw and impactful testimonies of the amphitheater spectacles, written by the very people who were eyewitnesses, and in some cases, participants. Selected, annotated, and explained by Alfonso Mañas, one of the world's most renowned experts on gladiatorial combat and amphitheater spectacles, this book is the essential and definitive tool for understanding what the arena games were truly like. The Romans had a saying, man is a wolf to man (homo homini lupus est), and nowhere was that truer than in the arena of the Colosseum, and the amphitheaters of the empire, where throughout the seven centuries that those spectacles lasted millions of people (and animals) died in the most atrocious way, for the entertainment of others.