Re:How were gladiators portrayed in ancient Rome?
by jncfhnb on Monday September 25, 2023 @12:58PM
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The article states that the gladiators were just slaves to be treated as disposable but I thought this wasn’t actually true. In the sense that they were fairly expensive and they didn’t want them killing each other all the time and they weren’t exactly casting lots of them into free for all death matches.
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Re:How were gladiators portrayed in ancient Rome?
by TheCaptain4815 on Monday September 25, 2023 @01:42PM
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Yup that's true and my favorite history youtuber, ToldInStone (PHD in Ancient Roman Studies), covers this in one of his books - "Naked Statues, Fat Gladiators, and War Elephants". Highly recommend it, it's a bunch of short stories on tales n myths about the ancient world which he goes into detail on.