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A gladiator (Latin: gladiator, "swordsman", from gladius, "sword") was an armed combatant who entertained audiences in the Roman Republic and Roman Empire in violent confrontations with other gladiators, wild animals, and condemned criminals.
Perhaps no figure from ancient Rome is as famous as the gladiator — a warrior of the arena that fought to the death against beasts, criminals, and other gladiators, for the entertainment of Roman society. Gladiators have become heavily mythologized figures, in part thanks to famous works of fiction like the film Gladiator, directed by Ridley ...
24 mag 2024 · Gladiator, professional combatant in ancient Rome. The gladiators originally performed at Etruscan funerals. At shows in Rome these exhibitions became wildly popular and increased in size from three pairs at the first known exhibition in 264 BCE to 300 pairs in the time of Julius Caesar (died 44 BCE).
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
3 mag 2018 · Perhaps the most famous gladiator of all was Spartacus, who led an uprising of gladiators and slaves from Capua, the leading producer of gladiators, in 73 BCE. From Thrace, the former Roman soldier had become a bandit until his capture and forced training as a gladiator.
- Mark Cartwright
Gladiators could be prisoners of war, enslaved people and those freed from bondage, or volunteers (auctoritas) from society’s lower classes. They were occasionally joined by former aristocrats, who enrolled on their volition after losing their fortunes and in need of other means of income.
Gladiators Rome. the gladiator. In the Flavian amphitheater, gladiator fights took place in the afternoon. Their name comes from the short sword they used in fighting: the "gladius." The gladiator of Rome learned the art of gladiatorial combat in "ludi," schools that were barracks much like prisons found throughout the empire; he slept in small ...
9 ago 2021 · During the past 20 years, research has revealed that gladiators weren’t trying to kill each other. Nine out of ten gladiators survived a match. To reconstruct the real story of the ring ...
