Adrian Goldsworthy & Harry Sidebottom - my 2 favorite British novelists-historians in conversation

 Salvete Omnes,

a short entry - 

happy to call out that we can watch my two most favorite British historian-novelists in conversation on Adrian Goldsworthy's podcast on Yt. 

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Yesterday I started listening to the new non-fiction book by Harry Sidebottom on the iconic figures of the ancient Rome - the gladiators and their world in 24 h.

Scuola gladiatoria in Carnuntum

* the list of gladiator types but my favorite book is this one by Konstantin Nossov (from Osprey Military Pub.), numerous illustrations by Vladimir V. Golubev. Francois Gilbert also has two books on the gladiators from the IV c.BC to VI c.AD(Elite series from OspreyM.P.), with plates by Giuseppe Rava. Roger Dunkle, Gladiators, Violence and Spectacle in Ancient Rome. 
There is also a non-fiction book by Tony Sullivan, The Real Gladiator. The True Story of Maximus Decimus Meridius.  Or several books on Spartacus and the Roman Servile Wars. 

eques gladiators

and the present day European reenactors from Nimes, Trier, Carnuntum etc.

eques or a mounted gladiator reenactor

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Valete