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Mosaic in the House of the Gladiators in Kourion

Photo of the well-known mosaic of two fighting gladiators in a house in the Kourion excavation.
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Mosaic in the House of the Gladiators in Kourion

Men in combat

01/2022 In the excavation of Kourion at Episkopi there is a place called the house of the gladiators. Not because gladiators lived there, but because there is a beautiful mosaic of two fighting men. The villa was probably built in the second half of the 3rd century AD and later destroyed by an earthquake.

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