Pompeii to stage gladiator fights, legionary drills - Arts Culture and Style. gladiators will recreate ancient combat, pomp and circumstance in the Roman site's amphitheater.
It will also be possible to see a centurion form up his troops and oversee training in the art of the gladius, their short stabbing sword. Legionaries will also link up in the famed 'testudo' attacking formation, named after a tortoise shell, which helped them win so many of their famous victories.