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

The sex appeal of the gladiators had NO MATCH

That's cool then being bodyguards lol

Them*

@Koningin Van Italië that sounds reasonable lol

@Magneto ✌ a wife of a senator (the second highest charge of the state) fleed with a gladiator in a romantic escape

They even got their own fan girls writing stuff on the walls

And they answered saying how big was their Gladius and such

This caused a lot of jealousy from various romans

I have the book I'm reading in the other room

It sounds more jolly than how the movies portrays it lol

Always these miserable guys not wanting to fight but forced to lol

Let me get it so I can make you see the photo

Okies

@Magneto ✌ they were miserable, not wanting to fight and forced

But it had also some upsides

Ahhh I get it

Lol Wth...talk about boasting lol

Wait is that a lion?

This is a tintibullanum (wind chime) representing a gladiator cutting his own dick head