The stories featured in Grecing Out are usually original adaptations of classic Greek myths.

This week's story features old school graffiti, historical facts, enslaved people, volcanic eruptions, self-unaliving, unaliving other people willy-nilly, talk of animal cruelty,

Geneva Conventions, and cost-playing emperors.

This one's a bit gnarly folks, so listen with caution.

Breaking out the greatest stories in history

were told in Greek mythology.

Breaking out gods and, amazing feats,

Listen and you'll see it's-

Grecing out!

Okay, yes, it's that time again. Once again, we are Roman around to tell you some stories of the ancient Roman Empire.

And we got a big one for you today. Actually, it's a couple of different stories. It's all about gladiators. Now, gladiators were actually... Actually, it's pronounced gladiators. Wait. What, really? Really? It's Gladi Otter?

Yes, in the original Latin.

Gladi Otter?

That sounds like a river animal that's a happy river mammal or...

And I saw this movie right and it was all about

gladiators and they actually did...

gladiators. Okay well fair enough we're we're so we're talking about gladiators today

which is an occupation of sorts that was popular in Rome

for over 600 years from around 260 BCE to about 400 CE. Ancient Romans flocked to Gladiator,

yeah, Gladiator games to watch spectacles of fighters in one-on-one

or small group combat.

And we're going to dig into what being a gladie a otter in ancient

...