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1 Entertainment: Afternoon activities Public holiday celebrations Campus Martius

2 Rooms in the bath: Caldarium Tepidarium Frigidarium Strigil

3 c. 364 BC Etruscan dancers performing at
chariot races 240 BC Aediles ask Livius Andronicus to adapt Greek plays for Ludi Romani Gnaeus Naevius (c BC) Quintus Ennius ( BC)

4 Titus Maccius Plautus (c. 254-184 BC)
Publius Terentius Afer (Terence, c. 195- 159 BC) Mid-1st c. BC Mimes dominant in comedy

5 Origins of gladiatorial contests in Etruscan
funeral games 264 BC First recorded case of gladiatorial contests in Rome AD Reign of Commodus

6 Retiarius (net and trident)
Secutor (lightly armed, pursuit)

7 Laqueator (lasso or sling and sword)
Dimachus (two short swords) Murmillo (fish-shaped helmet) Bustuarius (funeral fighter) Andabatis (on horseback)

8 Bestiarius (fights animals)
Essedarius (fights from a chariot) Samnite (heavily armed) Thraex (small shield, curved sword)

9 Circus Maximus Factions (Reds, Whites, Greens, Blues)

10 Gaius (or Titus) Petronius Arbiter (c. 27-66 AD)
Writer during reign of Nero Satyricon Lucius Annaeus Seneca (“the Younger,” c. 3 BC-65 AD) Stoic philosopher Epistles 7: The Gladiatorial Games

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