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EPISODE 30 Gladiators in Ancient Rome (Part 1): Are You Not Entertained?
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EPISODE 30 Gladiators in Ancient Rome (Part 1): Are You Not Entertained?
FromHistory on Fire
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109 minutes
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Feb 1, 2018
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Ancient Romans were obsessed with gladiatorial combat. In this two-part series, we time-travel back to get a sense of what the Games (of which gladiatorial combat was the main attraction) were like. In this episode: the origins of gladiators, human sacrifice, Achilles and the Iliad, feeding the dead with blood, who were the gladiators, female gladiators, the ludus, the different types of gladiators, the battles among the damnati, the naumachia, executions and ‘snuff plays’, the venatio, crushed by elephants or eaten by lions, the collapsing arena that killed over 20,000, the editor of the games, poor Romans eating lion for dinner, thumbs (up and down)...
Released:
Feb 1, 2018
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