Author:  Goscinny, Uderzo 
Interest age: from c 7 years
Published on 29 April 2004 by Little, Brown Book Group (Orion Children's Books) in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Asterix' series.

Paperback | 48 pages, 48
286 x 219 x 4 | 234g
The latest action-packed adventure from our indomitable Gauls, Asterix and the Griffin, is out now! When Cacofonix the bard is taken to Rome as a present for Julius Caesar, Asterix and Obelix set out to rescue him, sailing with master salesman Ekonomikrisis, the Phoenician merchant. How do our Gaulish friends come to end up training as gladiators? The next Games in the Circus Maximus are not quite what Caesar and the Roman public expect...