28. Gladiator schools were nothing like Hogwarts for warriors – they were more like prisons for condemned captives
Gladiator training schools were a long way from real schools. And gladiators were hardly everyday pupils. Instead, according to historian Wolfgang Neubauer, who discovered one such ancient training school in Austria, they were more like prisons, with the men prisoners. There was only one way in and out and the prisoners lived in cells rather than dorms. In the Austrian school, for instance, the gladiators lived in cells 32-square feet (3 square meters) in size, only coming out to practice and eat.