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A gladiator (Latin: gladiator ' swordsman ', from Latin 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. Some gladiators were volunteers who risked their lives and their legal and social standing by ...
Spartacus (Ancient Greek: Σπάρτακος, romanized: Spártakos; Latin: Spartacus; c. 103–71 BC) was a Thracian gladiator who was one of the escaped slave leaders in the Third Servile War, a major slave uprising against the Roman Republic.
Roman law was explicit that farm slaves were to be equated with quadrupeds kept in herds. [441] They were far less likely to be manumitted than either skilled urban or household slaves. [442] Large farms employing slaves for planting and harvesting are found in the eastern empire as well as Europe, and are alluded to in the Christian Gospels. [443]
In these schools, prisoners of war and condemned criminals—who were considered slaves—were taught the skills required to fight in gladiatorial games. [6] In 73 BC, a group of some 200 gladiators in the Capuan school owned by Lentulus Batiatus plotted an escape. When their plot was betrayed, a force of about 70 men seized kitchen implements ...
Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus Vatia [1] (also called Lentulus Batiatus by Plutarch) [2] was the Roman owner of a gladiatorial school in ancient Capua. It was from this school that, in 73 BC, the Thracian slave Spartacus and about 70 to 78 followers escaped. The breakout led to the slave rebellion known as the Third Servile War (73–71 BC). [3]
Note: Gladiator II spoilers follow. “There was a guy called Macrinus, who was a Roman Emperor who ruled right after Caracalla,” confirms Bartsch of the character played in the movie by Denzel ...
A Roman culture expert reveals which of Ridley Scott’s arena battles are based on real history — and which are “fun, but preposterous” “Gladiator II”: Fact vs. Fiction — Were There ...
The movie "Gladiator II" features scenes involving rhinos, baboons and sharks. A professor explains whether these animals were actually featured in the Roman Colosseum.