Some highly-skilled individuals chose to fight in the arena against wild animals, the fiercer the better, using it as a way to demonstrate their martial skills – and, in, Carpophorus, who was renowned for fighting 20 animals in a single show, was compared by the poet Martial to Hercules, suggesting that he would have had no problem dispatching the monsters slain by the god ( 15).
Fame and fortune
Mar 15, 2024
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