Explanation: When the Roman legions were just beginning to change into a standing, professional army, they had gladiators teach new recruits techniques for dodging and warding blows. While the later legions wouldn’t need the instruction of glorified athletes, as they would develop a core of veterans with dedicated training duty, it was useful in getting them started.

Here we see a 100% accurate recreation of those Roman training techniques!

This is a reference to an ad for a shitty mobile game. An animated Roman soldier is trying to stab an Egyptian woman but she dodges him by swinging dancing and swinging her hips. It’s a city builder game themed around ancient Mediterranean civilizations.