Female Roman Gladiators Have Waited 1,800 Years to be Discovered

Send us Fan Mail 📖 Read the companion essay: https://helioxpodcast.substack.com She walked into the Roman arena voluntarily. A whip in one hand. A dagger in the other. And across the yellow sand, a leopard paced toward her, sizing her up. For over 1,800 years, she was little more than a ghost in a forgotten archive sketch. Now, historian Alfonso Manas has confirmed the first and only known visual evidence of a female Roman beast-fighter — the Venatrix — and what he found rewrites a century of...