Fermentaçao

Gladiator

Adapted from the novel by DEWEY GRAM Based on the screenplay by DAVID FRANZONI, JOHN LOGAN and WILLIAM NICHOLSON

Level 4

Retold by Annette Keen Series Editors: Andy Hopkins and Jocelyn Potter

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Contents page Introduction Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Activities Farmer and Soldier The Last Battle One More Duty A Prisoner Again New Gladiators Caesar’s Arrival in Rome The Spaniard and the Crowd The Colosseum A Man for the People Secrets and Lies Broken Plans Home, At Last iv 1 5 11 19 27 32 37 44 51 57 62 71 72

Introduction
All eyes turned to the trees. A horseman rode out, toward the Roman army. There was something strange about the way he was riding Maximus was the