What's the deal with gladiatrices?
What's the deal with gladiatrices?
Jason Brown
Lincoln Flores
Guys like to imagine girls are fighting over them.
Michael Ward
Everyone loves a catfight
Zachary Adams
It's Roman dubyadubya E. What is there to explain?
Carter Miller
It's a status symbol. If you are so wealthy you can sacrifice two perfectly good breeders just for an afternoon's entertainment, it sends a message.
Mason Cook
It was a transgressive spectacle, and Romans would pay good money to see two women fighting.
Roman culture said women were absolutely not supposed to do that sort of thing, but a lot of the barbarian cultures from the frontiers were okay with it, so it was this scandalous thing that those crazy foreigners did, which automatically made it fascinating.
Brody Rogers
>From the 60s AD female gladiators appear as rare and "exotic markers of exceptionally lavish spectacle".[56] In 66 AD, Nero had Ethiopian women, men and children fight at a munus to impress King Tiridates I of Armenia.[57] Romans seem to have found the idea of a female gladiator novel and entertaining, or downright absurd; Juvenal titillates his readers with a woman named "Mevia", hunting boars in the arena "with spear in hand and breasts exposed",[58] and Petronius mocks the pretensions of a rich, low-class citizen, whose munus includes a woman fighting from a cart or chariot.[59]
Wikipedia is pretty good for Roman stuff because they always include their sources in the text.
Jace Ortiz
Gladiators rarely died. It was dangerous, but not murderous, with many fighting 10-12 times across their professional life. There's a historical record/graffitie that suggest there was a gladiator with a 0-8 win/loss, so clearly losers weren't getting murdered left and right.
Justin Butler
not all female slaves were that attractive.
Jaxon Jones
There's a chance...they might somehow...kiss.