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The Romans of the Classical period had no specific word for female gladiators as a type or class. [1] The earliest reference to a woman gladiator as gladiatrix is by a scholiast in the 4th–5th century, who mockingly wonders whether a woman undergoing training for a performance at the ludi for the Floralia, a festival known for racy performances by seminude dancers, wants to be a gladiatrix ...
Other female family members, including Drypetis, Stateira II, and Sisygambis were present and were captured as well. [89] 332 BCE – The Nubian queen, Candace of Meroe, intimidated Alexander the Great with her armies and her strategy while confronting him, causing him to avoid Nubia, instead heading to Egypt, according to Pseudo-Callisthenes. [90]
The name grew more popular, becoming common soon after the seventh century BC [3] and was also turned into the female form Ἀχιλλεία (Achilleía), attested in Attica in the fourth century BC (IG II² 1617) and, in the form Achillia, on a stele in Halicarnassus as the name of a female gladiator fighting an "Amazon".
The Roman general, Pompey defeated Scythians fighting for Mithridates VI of Pontus, and in his triumph displayed female warrior rulers among the leaders he defeated. Scythian lifestyle included equality among the sexes, and some women took the opportunities that a warrior lifestyle offered to both men and women. [ 5 ]
She defeated him and became the monarch. [3] [4] In 131 BC, Cleopatra II of Egypt led a rebellion against Ptolemy VIII Physcon and drove him and Cleopatra III out of Egypt. In 42 BC, Fulvia, wife of Mark Antony, organized an uprising against Augustus. [5] In 14, Mother Lü led a peasant rebellion [6] against Wang Mang of the Western Han Dynasty.
1694: An unnamed female serves in the Dutch navy dressed as a male. [62] 1696: Joonas Dirckse in the Dutch navy is discovered to be a female dressed as a male. [62] 1696: Mongolian Queen Anu dies saving her husband at the Battle of Zuunmod. [144] Late 17th century: A Finnish female serves in the French, English and Danish armies dressed as a ...
"The revolt of the gladiatrices"), also known as Naked Warriors, is a 1974 gladiator exploitation film directed by Steve Carver and starring Margaret Markov and Pam Grier. Pam Grier and Margaret Markov portray female gladiators in ancient Rome, who have been enslaved and must fight for their freedom.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 20 January 2025. A retiarius ("net fighter") with a trident and cast net, fighting a secutor (79 AD mosaic). There were many different types of gladiators in ancient Rome. Some of the first gladiators had been prisoners-of-war, and so some of the earliest types of gladiators were experienced fighters ...