Gladiators Flashcards

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Who became gladiators

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Soldiers taken as prisoners of war
Slaves who had committed specific crimes (running away)
Free men volunteered

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What did being a gladiator offer?

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Job
Food
Shelter
Chance to win fame, fortune, wealth and gifts

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What was the ludus gladiatorius

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Gladiator school

After Spartacus, legislature specified location, organisation and ownership of the larger schools

By imperial times, 4 schools which were owned by the state

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Who was the lanista

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Gladiator trainer
‘Lanio - I tear to pieces’ - incites violence

Hire out his fighters to a magistrate wishing to be an editor of a show

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Gladiators societal position

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Infamis
Beneath the law
Socially marginalised
Buried in separate cemeteries

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The oath

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I will endure to be burned, to be bound, to be beaten and to be killed by the sword’

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Training

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Hours practising
Fighting drills with blunted wooden swords
Taught how to show nobility at the moment of death

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Spartacus

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73BCE
Broke out of gladiator school in Capua
Following of thousands of runaway slaves which he turned into a rebel army
Routed in far south of Italy

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Who were the procuratores?

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Agents of the emperor who ran gladiator schools in the imperial times

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Describe barracks

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Housed 100 men 
Punishment cell (low ceiling) 

High quality medical care, regular massage, fed on high energy diet (beans, barley, oatmeal, fruit, ash)

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Sex symbol

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Graffiti from Pompeii ‘Celadus the Thracian is all the girls’ heart-throb’

Buy a jar of gladiator’s sweat mixed with dust and sand from the arena as an aphrodisiac

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