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Needham, MA - March 9, 2005 To find the truth about Roman gladiators, the world turns to Google and Google turns the world to CTCWeb. The Internet’s #1 search engine links first to The Roman Gladiator on the AbleOne Education Network’s Classics Technology Center on the Web (CTCWeb, http://ablemedia.com/ctcweb). “Google gives CTCWeb’s Roman Gladiator ‘thumbs up’ as the most popular article about these jocks with rock and whips and swords on the Internet,” said Wendy E. Owens, CTCWeb Editor-in-Chief. “Ours is the ‘go-to’ resource about Roman gladiators for the BBC, PBS, the Discovery Channel, and numerous other educational Websites who use the posting to educate their audiences about these ancient combatants.”

The Roman Gladiator describes the origins, history, and evolution of the gladiatorial games in ancient Rome. The article looks closely at the men who became gladiators and the society that enjoyed the bloodthirsty spectacle. The Roman Gladiator covers gladiatorial combat from its origins to its demise, describing how both men and women fought mano a mano or against wild beasts in arenas throughout the Roman Empire. Numerous links to gladiator resources beyond CTCWeb are provided.

“Because our posting on Roman gladiators is number one on Google, CTCWeb reaches a large and growing global audience with straight forward information about the economics, politics, and social mores of these deadly games,” Owens said. “When the world wants Roman gladiators, they go to Google to get it, Google sends them to CTCWeb because we’ve got it, and because we help students around the world understand the history behind this Roman institution, we are the first choice.”

Each week AbleOne’s sponsor, AbleMedia, salutes contributors for outstanding submissions to the AbleOne Consortium (http://ablemedia.com/ctcweb/consortium/), the CTCWeb Showcase (http://ablemedia.com/ctcweb/showcase/), and CTCWeb Netshots™ (http://ablemedia.com/ctcweb/netshots.html). Each receives the Bronze Chalice award. AbleMedia awards Silver Chalices for the outstanding submissions of the month. At the end of each year, AbleMedia awards Gold Chalices for the outstanding submissions of the year.

AbleOne serves millions of educators, students, and other users in over 100 countries and the number of users is tripling annually. AbleOne’s CTCWeb is a repository of practical tools, for classicists and other educators, to enhance the use of computer technology in Classics education. At CTCWeb, students, educators and others find the free dissemination and open exchange of practical educational materials, systems, and applications by individuals and organizations involved in the Classics community. AbleMedia sponsors CTCWeb as part its AbleOne Education Network.

The AbleOne Education Network (AbleOne) is an online educational resource for millions of educators and students at the K-12 and post secondary levels around the globe. For seven years, AbleOne’s has used the Internet to provide quality teaching and learning materials to its rapidly growing corps of dedicated users: educators, students, and other curious minds worldwide. For more about AbleOne go to http://ablemedia.com/ableone.

The Internet’s #1 search engine loves AbleOne. AbleOne’s educational materials routinely appear among the top five results for Google keyword searches within the educational disciplines covered by AbleOne’s Centers.

Keyword	Google Rank
Gladiators	#1 out of 1.13 million
Roman Gladiator	#1 out of 368,000
Latin Mottoes	#1 out of 15,800
Movie Gladiator	#1 out of 705,000
Gladiator the Movie	#1 out of 710,000
Greek Tragedy	#1 out of 920,000
Sophocles’ Oedipus	#2 out of 119,000
Homer’s Iliad	#3 out of 95,800
Sophocles’ Antigone	#3 out of 103,000
Ancient Olympics	#4 out of 2.3 million
Etymology Dictionary	#5 out of 1.49 million

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