An ancient Roman mosaic shows a woman fighting a wild beast in the arena — a rare depiction of a female combatant and the first known visual representation of a woman battling animals, according to a ...

This rare depiction may be the greatest surviving monument to women in the Roman arena. -The famous Roman satirist Juvenal wrote during the 1st Century AD, around the same time as the poet Martial.

This mosaic depiction of a topless woman whipping a leopard might've proved the existence of female gladiators. Twas beauty who killed the beast. An 1,800-year-old mosaic fragment featuring a topless ...