Name: Gladiator: Fighting for Life, Glory and Freedom (Landscape History) (en Inglés)
Price: 23.74 EUR
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Author: Ben Hubbard
ISBN: 9781782749455

portada Gladiator: Fighting for Life, Glory and Freedom (Landscape History) (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Amber Books Ltd

Autor

Ben Hubbard

Año

2020

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

224

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

ISBN13

9781782749455

Categorías

Antiguo roma
Historia de roma

Gladiator: Fighting for Life, Glory and Freedom (Landscape History) (en Inglés)

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"When everyone had had plenty to eat and drink they called for the gladiators. The moment anyone's throat was cut, they clapped their hands in pleasure. And it sometimes even turned out that someone had specified in their will that the most beautiful women he had purchased were to fight each other...." - Athenaeus, The Learned Banqueters With their origins as blood rites staged at the funerals of rich aristocrats, gladiatorial combat is one of the defining images of ancient Rome. For more than 600 years, people flocked to arenas to watch these highly trained warriors participate in a blood-soaked spectacle that was part sport, part theatre and part cold-blooded murder. Gladiatorial contests were a spectacular dramatisation of the Roman emperor's formidable power. Gladiator looks at life and service in the Roman arenas from the origins of the games in the third century BCE through to the demise of the games in the fifth century CE. It explores the lives of the prisoners of war, criminals, slaves and volunteers who became gladiators, their training, and the more than 20 types of gladiator they could become, fighting with different types of weapons. From Spartacus's slave revolt to the real Emperor Commodus who liked to play at being a gladiator, from female gladiators to the great combats involving hundreds of exotic animals, Gladiator is a colourful, accessible study of the ancient world's famous warrior entertainers.