(German: Title means "Gladiators - a life-and-death game")

This book deals with the "performances" in the amphitheater.

Following topics about the gladiators are handled among other things: origin, social position, training, life expectancy, love life, female gladiators, costs and prices, kinds of gladiators.

Also the order of events in an amphitheater are described: animal hunt and animal fights, executions and gladiator games.

The end of the gladiator games are also described. And the reality of the movies "Spartacus" and "Gladiator" are analyzed.

Impressive in particular are the order of events which are described in the chapter "A day in the coliseum". It points out that not only the gladiator fights are hard to understood from today's point of view.