Gladiator Styles & Pairings
Posted by MRL on Jan 1st 2007
Gladiator Mosaic 320-30 AD Villa Borghese
Despite what Hollywood would have you believe, gladiators were not given random weapons, sent into the arena, and told to fight. When someone became a gladiator, they were assigned a specific type and style of fighting and practiced it constantly. A specific type of gladiator only fought another specific type of gladiator as determined by well-established rules. These pairings were intended to prov...
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