History Book Review: The Gladiators By Fik Meijer
The Gladiators by Fik Meijer Book Review
Everyone knows or has an idea on what a gladiator is. Many people get their perspectives of a gladiator from mainly get their information from movies and shows. In the book The Gladiators, by Fik Meijer, he goes in depth from the beginning of gladiators to how it gradually disappeared in the Roman empire. Meijer describes this bloodthirsty sport very well and provides great information on every aspect of the sport. His facts are backed up with a lot of evidence and information he presents is very interesting. Even though it reads like a history book, the book doesn't really get extremely boring and keeps me interested. If anyone wants to know about the true history and has many questions about gladiators, …show more content…
Gladiators has always been something I was interested in and the bloodthirsty sport always had me wondering why it was so popular. From movies and media, gladiators make a very good action theme. Who wouldn't think gladiators are cool? So I was happy to have picked this book for my history book review. Meijer does a good job in keeping it interesting. The topics range from things you think about, to things that you never thought existed when it came to gladiators. Most the information in the book was things I never even thought about when it came to gladiators. So the fact that I was surprised by the content kept me extremely interested in the book. One of the really interesting topics was the Sea Battles. “Sea battles were part of a tradition going back to Caesar as well. To allow his victories in Gaul, Egypt, Asia Minor and North Africa to stir the imagination even further, he staged sea battles on a specially dug lake in what is now Rome's Trastevere or, again, on the Campus Martius” (178). Topics like these kept me interested thought the whole book. There were plenty of more things he discussed that kept my eyes glued to the book. I didn't expect the book to have such intriguing information, but the surprise was
Everyone knows or has an idea on what a gladiator is. Many people get their perspectives of a gladiator from mainly get their information from movies and shows. In the book The Gladiators, by Fik Meijer, he goes in depth from the beginning of gladiators to how it gradually disappeared in the Roman empire. Meijer describes this bloodthirsty sport very well and provides great information on every aspect of the sport. His facts are backed up with a lot of evidence and information he presents is very interesting. Even though it reads like a history book, the book doesn't really get extremely boring and keeps me interested. If anyone wants to know about the true history and has many questions about gladiators, …show more content…
Gladiators has always been something I was interested in and the bloodthirsty sport always had me wondering why it was so popular. From movies and media, gladiators make a very good action theme. Who wouldn't think gladiators are cool? So I was happy to have picked this book for my history book review. Meijer does a good job in keeping it interesting. The topics range from things you think about, to things that you never thought existed when it came to gladiators. Most the information in the book was things I never even thought about when it came to gladiators. So the fact that I was surprised by the content kept me extremely interested in the book. One of the really interesting topics was the Sea Battles. “Sea battles were part of a tradition going back to Caesar as well. To allow his victories in Gaul, Egypt, Asia Minor and North Africa to stir the imagination even further, he staged sea battles on a specially dug lake in what is now Rome's Trastevere or, again, on the Campus Martius” (178). Topics like these kept me interested thought the whole book. There were plenty of more things he discussed that kept my eyes glued to the book. I didn't expect the book to have such intriguing information, but the surprise was