if u were taken back in time to ancient rome and invited to witness a gladiatorial spectacle

would you go?

(this question inspired by The Rest is History podcast)

me - no fcking hell some things you can't unsee

I would go and look at some sculptures or sthg and find out what colour they really were

Wasn't it very rare for the fights to be to the death? I'd probably go for a shufty.

if you'd managed to get taken back in time you wouldn't want to miss out on stuff

I would go for sure. This is probably in the top 10 things to do if time travel was a thing.

Yes and I suspect it's an epic spectacle and the odds are you wouldn't see much of the detail same way that if you go Twickenham you see far less of what happens than you do on TV.

My Latin teacher in high school told us that contrary to popular belief, it's thumbs up that means death and thumbs down that means live. I would like to confirm that.

Do you like movies about gladiators?

shatner - the imperial ones supposedly involved lots of ancient myth references that were much darker than a wee sword fight (e.g. a very literal recreation of the conception of the Minotaur)