Gladiators

Question 1

Three Types of Unfree Gladiators

Answer 1

Slaves
Prisoners of War
Condemned Criminals

Question 2

3 Facts on Prisoner of War Gladiators

Answer 2

Thought to be first gladiators
Did not need to be trained
Not owned by lanistas

Question 3

Auctorati refers to what?

Answer 3

Volunteer gladiators

Question 4

2 different reasons why someone would volunteer as a gladiator

Answer 4

Pay large debts

Gladiators could be seen as celebrities

Question 5

What did infames/infamia refer to

Answer 5

Legal status given to anyone who submits their body for pleasure of others (gladiators, prostitutes)

Question 6

What rights did the infamia lose

Answer 6

Can’t run for office
Can’t vote
Can’t testify in court
Can’t have a will

Question 7

True or False: Gladiators were slaves to their lanistas

Answer 7

False. Gladiators were slaves to their sentences

Question 8

How could a free man become a gladiator without suffering infamia

Answer 8

Sign a contract to fight one match

Question 9

Which gladiators typically fought first (from the ludus) and why

Answer 9

Most dangerous and sly ones

Goal was to kill most capable, and keep the docile

Question 10

Which gladiators were saved for triumph and what does this demonstrate

Answer 10

Tallest and most handsome

Demonstrates that games were spectacle and to entertain audience

Question 11

What were misbehaving gladiators threatens with?

Answer 11

Being sent to the mines (very dangerous)

Question 12

Two examples of masculinity in/at the arena

Answer 12

Considered masculine to watch fights

Honor in gladiator accepting fate when missio not granted

Question 13

Who named gladiators and what did the names commonly refer to

Answer 13

Gladiators would name themselves, commonly referred to invincibility and sexual allure

Question 14

Define ludus

Answer 14

Gladiatorial schools

Question 15

Define lanista

Answer 15

Person who ran the ludus

Question 16

Define dictata

Answer 16

Choreography taught to gladiators in their lanista

Question 17

Define palus

Answer 17

Used for training in the ludus

Stake in the ground, spinning post with weapons, dummy fighter

Question 18

What was a gladiators diet and what parallel did this draw

Answer 18

They were well fed, similar to fattening a calf

Question 19

How do the living conditions in ludus (sometimes) vary from in film

Answer 19

Standards of living weren’t bad, better than jail scenes depicted in movies

Question 20

True or False: Gladiators could leave the ludus

Answer 20

True. There is evidence some gladiators could leave during the day and come in for “work”

Question 21

True or False: Gladiators could have families

Answer 21

True

Question 22

Give examples of femininity in/at the area

Answer 22

Gladiators had erotic appeal that attracted women (idea women needed men to satisfy sexual appetite)
Elite women occasionally swayed by gladiators

Question 23

True or False: Female gladiatorial battles often ended the same way male fights did

Answer 23

False. At the end of a female fight release of death and freedom granted to both female warriors