The Good Fight: How Faith is Woven into A Gladiator’s Story in Daughter of the Rebellion

While we normally think about gladiators as muscular men fighting in arenas, historically women were also forced to fight as entertainment in the Roman empire. Jamie Ogle’s Daughter of the Rebellion imagines one such woman.

When Adel, part of the Visigoth tribe, is captured during a battle with the Roman army, she is sold to a gladiator school in Rome. There, she meets Felix, who is against the violence and helps the fighters as he can. As Adel’s fame grows, so does the war between the Romans and the Visigoths, heading toward a deadly showdown.