Transcript Gladiators and the Privates Lives

Gladiators and the Privates Lives
Types of Gladiators
Thraex
Retiarius
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Some gladiatorial vocabulary:
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tiro:
veteranus:
lanista:
armatura:
myrmillo:
Samnite:
secutor:
Thraex:
retiarius:
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essedarius:
familia:
ludus:
ludia:
a gladiatorial recruit
those gladiators who had fought at least once
a gladiatorial trainer
gladiatorial equipment
heavily-armed footman with a fish on his helmets
heavily-armed footman
heavily-armed footman
light-armed footman bearing a shield and reversed sickle
unhelmeted footman armed with only tunic, net, trident
and dagger
chariot fighter
a troop of gladiators
a place of residence and training of gladiators
female gladiator; women associated with gladiators; "a
female slave attached to a gladiatorial ludus"
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Women Gladiators
Gladiatorial Ludi (Schools)
Crescens the netter of noctural chicks…………
Gladiatorial Tombstones
Pompeii
A Gladiator’s House in Pompeii?