2. Index
Origin of the gladiators
Rules and gladiators schools
Types of gladiators
The combat
Questions
Doubts
3. Origin of the Gladiators
Etruscans
Funereal games
Introduced in Rome in the third century B.C.
Religion became spectacle
Brothers Marco and Décimo Junio Pera
Boario Roman Forum
It provoked the madness
4. Rules and schools of lanistas
Owner of the gladiator
Voluntary gladiators and slaves
Obtain the Roman citizenship
Different rules for each combat
Ludus Gallicus, Dacicus and Magnus
Domiciano
5. Types of gladiators
Samnitas or mirmillions
Thracians
Reciarius
Homoplachus
Equestrians
6. The combat
They were dressing luxuriously
The horn
The area of fight was delimited
The thumb
Low rate of deaths
Winners were congratulated
Spoliarium
7. Summary
1º Games in the third century B.C.
Lanistas were the owners of gladiators
Spartacus was a thracian
Winners were congratulated in the arena