In fact the Roman gladiator traditions is splitter in 2: west and east

have you guys seen spartacus the show

Alexander the great is my favorite and Achilles

is not realistic but fun asf to watch

In the west part of the empire gladiator often represented wars or soldiers, this can be seen in their Graves

While in the east they mostly represented myths and the epic litterature

@Mtaddict yes..my aunt was telling my mom about it so I check it

LOL You aunt saw it damn

@Magneto ✌ and other fun fact. There is a recorder match between 2 female gladiators called respectively "Amazone(Amazon) and Achillia(female Achille)"

@Mtaddict yeah..I kinda see it as the Rome version of GOT

naaah its not grounded at all to be GOT

Watch Rome TV Show its actually what hnelped GOT get made

is really good

@Koningin Van Italië that sounds cool...the Amazon's also amazed me especially the myths circling around them especially the Queen of them whom achillis had to take her belt

Amazon's were the top of Roman erotic litterature and culture

lmao

@Mtaddict I will actually check it out..it looks cool In the link u showed already

@Koningin Van Italië it seems that Rome took a heck alot of Greek vibes lol

Yeah but Romans took a lot from etruschians aswell

They were cool though...I saw some drawing of one if their soldiers it looks really cool @Koningin Van Italië

The first gladiators were etruschians and the whole gladiator tradition until the 1/2 century was really similar to the etruschian

1/2 century bc

Fun fact: not all gladiators were slaves

In fact, a little part was made of volunteers

Both males and females

Mostly males of the lowest social classes

Did they use gladiators in the army ?

No

Why not

And that was a shame because they actually had a really similar Training

@Magneto ✌ you see, the gladiators were seen as the lowest possible class in all rome

On pair with prostitutes

Ahhh I see now ..wow

So they were loved inside the arena, but hated outside

Would have been useful in the battlefield

In fact, most of time (like 80% of the time) the population wanted the gladiators to live because they were loved

But on the other hand, they were sometimes hired as bodyguards or private armies

Before the various reforms to prevent private armies

Ahh like the modern WWE guys just real lol

Another fun fsct: they got laid

A lot