“For a modern audience, it’s tempting to valorize the Roman gladiator — strong, brave, fierce — as a masculine ideal. Indeed, Ancient Rome has become for many young men an exemplar of a “lost” masculinity, as evidenced by the social media accounts and TikTok posts celebrating Roman culture”.
Fonte: The New York Times
Autore: Melanie Racette-Campbell
Link: Gladiator Movies Aren’t Telling the Real Story About Rome