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Gladiators: 100 BC-AD 200 - Wisdom, Stephen
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The gladiatorial games of the Roman world comprised battle for entertainment and slaughter for profit. Although notorious for the use of prisoners of war, conquered slaves and condemned criminals as dispensable 'extras', some did volunteer for the gladiatorial profession. Spectacle was everything: combatants were encouraged to draw their opponents' blood and prolong death. For citizen and caesar, the gladiators created drama through their violence - and the public loved them for it. This title relates how men, and women too ...

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Gladiators: 100 BC-AD 200 2001, Osprey Publishing (UK), New York

ISBN-13: 9781841762999

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