In Rome, gladiators make a comeback
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ABOUT 2,000 years have passed since grown men were paraded into the Roman Coliseum to beat each other to death. Now, Rome's local authorities want to bring back the fighting – minus the blood. Umberto Broccoli, the head of archaeology on Rome's city council, told the daily newspaper La Repubblica that in 2009 visitors will get to experience "the sights, sounds and smells" of ancient Rome. "We do not need to enshrine historical sites and monuments, we need to make them more spectacular. Museums and monuments must speak to the public in a new way," he said. In the coming months, Broccoli hopes to introduce choreographed mock-fights in the Coliseum. Actors will dress like the old gladiators and play-fight with swords, tridents, nets and daggers. They'll even talk and smell like the gladiators of millennia before. "They were sweaty, they stank and they swore. Why not show them as they really were?" Broccoli commented.
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