How could I have missed this article from Bloomberg news in March (also reprinted here in Private Wealth magazine)? The Gladiator School of Rome offers the perfect team-building experience:
Gruppo Storico Romano, historically located on the Via Appia Antica near the spot where Kirk Douglas found himself crucified in Stanley Kubrick’s film “Spartacus,” also offers customers a fully equipped Roman Legion, including catapults, battering rams and a complete line of siege towers. They’ve done battle-for-pay in Shanghai and Hong Kong and are scheduled to march north on Bulgaria this summer. * * * Gladiator training remains the company’s core business. A 2-hour lesson with padded wood swords for kids costs 20 euros ($28). Adults pay 30 euros and the pain is real. For anyone who would like to get a feel for this at the office, duct-tape 40 pounds of cast-iron skillets to your body and run while a co- worker in culottes tries to skewer you with an array of giant shish-kebab sticks strapped to a rod of rebar.
If, after two hours of this, you find that you’re enjoying yourself, it’s time to sign up for professional certification, a 40-hour seminar in Ancient Roman history and combat, along with 3 years of further intensive training in spears, pikes and axes. Everybody enjoys the fortifying lunch of jug wine and pasta shells stuffed with sheep intestines served at a nearby catacomb.
Nero’s luxury gladiator course runs 500 euros and takes place amid roaring marble lions and prancing bronze unicorns in the aromatic garden at the Rome Cavalieri Hilton. The hotel’s scampi carpaccio is excellent, its cellar offers a rare 1958 Bartolo Mascarello Barolo ....
I don't think my Dean would go for it for the next faculty off-site, but to get out some frustrations, the pikes and axes do have a certain attraction. I'll mention it anyway.
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