Gladiators By Aaron and Philippe

Info About The Gladiators Gladiators were around in about 264 B.C. They fought at special arenas Most Gladiators were slaves, prisoners of war, criminals but sometimes free citizens became Gladiators on there own free will.

What Time Were Gladiators Around? The first Gladiatorial fight was in 264 B.C. The Gladiators fought for 700 years before dying out. Gladiatorial games were most common during the funeral games known as Munera.

What are Gladiators? Gladiators were slaves, criminals and prisoners of war that trained long and hard at special schools and were sometimes free citizens. There were also women Gladiators.

Where Gladiators fought Gladiators fought in special arenas. The most famous and biggest of these arenas was the Coliseum in Rome.

Where the Gladiators Trained Gladiators trained in special schools owned by the state. These Special schools were called ludi. Gladiatorial barracks at Pompeii A model of the gladiatorial barracks at Pompeii

Weaponry Gladiators had a massive arsenal of weapons, some of these weapons were called: Gladius: Sword Fascina: Harpoon Galea: Visored Helmet Galerus: Shoulder Piece Hasta: Lance Parma: Round Shield Scutum: Oblong Shield Sica: Curved Sword Weapons and shield from the Gladiatorial Barracks at Pompeii

Gladiator diet The Roman Gladiators diet was the most important part of there life The Gladiators had three square meals a day. The Gladiators diet consisted of mostly proteins from vegetables and cereals.

Gladiator the Movie The plot of the movie Gladiator is that General Maximus Decimus Meridius goes and leads the Roman Empire to victory against the Germanians. And the dying Emperor wants Maximus to give Rome back to the people but the emperors son- Commodus becomes jealous kills his father and then kills Maximus’ family and then tries to kill Maximus. But Maximus escapes and is sold as a slave and becomes a gladiator when he isn’t defeated and gets to fight Commodus. When Commodus finds out about this he stabs Maximus in the lung before their fight but Maximus kills Commodus and then dies of his own wounds and joins his family in the after world.

How Accurate is the Movie Gladiator The movie Gladiator is riveting but historically inaccurate. For example there was no last great battle with the Germanian Tribes on the eve of Marcus Aurelius’ death in fact Marcus Aurelius died the year after. And Caesar Commodus wasn’t killed by The Gladiator he was killed by Narcissus on Dec 31, AD 192.

Summary The Gladiators were around for 700 years before dying out. Gladiators were slave, criminals and prisoners of war. Gladiators trained in special schools owned by the state. These schools were called ludi. Gladiators had a massive arsenal of weapons. Some of these weapons were the spear, sword and shield. Gladiator the movie is historically inaccurate.

Bibliography I would like to thank these site because they made this presentation possible. http://abacus.bates.edu/~mimber/Rciv/gladiator.htm http://www.classicsunveiled.com/romel/html/amphiglad.html www.google.com www.google.com Images http://www.londonoratory.org/The%20Classics%20Department%20Website/Gladiators% http://www.vroma.org/~bmcmanus/arena.html http://ablemedia.com/ctcweb/showcase/wardgladiator1.html