Origins of the Gladitorial Games Flashcards

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Origins of gladiatorial games

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Etruscans or Campania

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How was the concept of gladiatorial games conceived?

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Honouring a dead nobleman by two of his slaves fighting to the death at his funeral

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First gladiatorial games

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264BCE

Junius Brutus had 3 pairs of gladiators fight to the death in Rome’s Forum Boarium in honour of his dead father

‘Munus’ - duty of remembrance owed to a dead man by his relatives

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What was the Forum Boarium

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The main cattle market

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183BCE gladiatorial games

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120 gladiators

3 days of funeral games

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100s BCE

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Paid for by the state to win votes and support

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Julius Caesar and gladiators

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65BCE, newly elected aedile

320 gladiators (Senate said this was maximum for a citizen to keep in Rome)

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Augustus and gladiators

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Forbade the praetors to hold more than 2 munera a year

Could only use 120 gladiators
Could only spend 25,000 denarii

Augustus himself put on 8 per year, spending 180,000 denarii on each

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Trajan and the gladiators

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Celebrated victories in Dacia
123 days
10,000 gladiators, 11,000 animals

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