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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 ...
Gladiators in the circus arena, Zliten mosaic, 1st century AD The exact purpose of the early damnatio ad bestias is not known and might have been a religious sacrifice rather than a legal punishment, [2] especially in the regions where lions existed naturally and were revered by the population, such as Africa, India and other parts of Asia.
Pages in category "Executed ancient Roman women" The following 36 pages are in this category, out of 36 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
The discovery of the Great Dover Street woman was announced in 2000 following excavations in 1996 at the site by Museum of London Archaeology. [1]The grave was a cremation dating from the early 2nd- to mid-3rd-century AD, from a bustum funeral over a pit into which the remains eventually fell and were covered.
Vanderford's second intention was to point out how uncritically the mainstream media would accept an anonymous video. [74] The Islamic Global Media Center claimed to have made the video, but removed it from their website after the hoax was discovered. [75] The video also appeared on other militant websites and was broadcast on Arabic television ...
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 ...
Peacock is breaking into the swords and sandals biz, ordering to series a “large scale” adaptation of Daniel Mannix’s Roman Gladiator historical tome Those About to Die. A pair of ...
Drug cartels in Mexico frequently make videos of dead or captured gang members to intimidate or threaten rivals. Mexican police confirm grisly gang video showing bodies kicked, burned and shot ...