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A cestus or caestus (Classical Latin: [ˈkae̯stʊs], Ancient Greek: Kεστός) is a battle glove that was sometimes used in Roman gladiatorial events. It was based on a Greek original, which employed straps called himantes and sphirae, hard leather strips that enclosed and protected the fist and lower arm. Some cesti were fitted with studs ...
Boxing gloves used by ancient Greeks and Romans, also written Caestus [1] A girdle or belt worn by women in ancient Greece A marriage girdle, given by a newly married wife to her husband [ 2 ]
A pair of velcro sparring gloves. Boxing gloves are cushioned gloves that fighters wear on their hands during boxing matches and practices. Unlike "fist-load weapons" (such as the ancient cestus) which were designed as a lethal weapon, modern boxing gloves are non-lethal, designed to protect both the opponent's head and the fighter's hand during a bout.
Nearly 2000-year-old Roman boxing gloves were uncovered at Vindolanda in 2017 by the Vindolanda Trust experts led by Dr Andrew Birley. According to The Guardian , being similar in style and function to the full-hand modern boxing gloves, these two gloves found at Vindolanda look like leather bands and date back to 120 AD.
In “The Manly Art: Bare-Knuckle Prize Fighting in America,” Elliott J. Gorn notes that the popularity of training with boxing gloves gradually transformed fight sports from a criminal activity ...
The practice of throwing a gauntlet in response to a challenge has its origins in antiquity. In Book 5 of the Aeneid, Entelus responds to the challenge of the boxer Dares by throwing his caestus (boxing glove, or gauntlet) into the boxing ring. To "throw down the gauntlet" is to issue a challenge.
Summer – Roman boxing gloves found at Vindolanda in the north of England. [15] August – Boxford Roman mosaic discovered in southern England. [16] [17] August 19 – Heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis (launched 1931; sunk 1945) is located in the Philippine Sea. [18]
Can we imagine ourselves back on that awful day in the summer of 2010, in the hot firefight that went on for nine hours? Men frenzied with exhaustion and reckless exuberance, eyes and throats burning from dust and smoke, in a battle that erupted after Taliban insurgents castrated a young boy in the village, knowing his family would summon nearby Marines for help and the Marines would come ...