Gladiators Role In Roman Social Life

What is it: it is an arena in where gladiator contests would be held even slaves were put into the arena. It was also a place of death where two people would battle each other with swords and other types of weapon or sometimes the gladiators would fight wild animals and other people would watch them fight for their own enjoyment. It was also played an importance in Roman social life The longer the fight would last the more the audience would be satisfied. The games would be held 10-12 times on average in a year. The emperor was the person who paid for the game and the amphitheater was as. The emperor's purpose was to also make the poor and unemployed entertained. It was a way to distract the poor people of their poverty hoping that they would
The gladiators were fit slaves who were forced being a gladiator and sent to gladiator school to be trained so that they can fight in the amphitheaters. Gladiators were symbolized as being shameful and their lack of reputation was also seen in the Roman law and was classified as being in flames by the early participate which means having a lack of reputation. Gladiatorial games were actually adopted from the Etruscans it probably came and probably used the way of Campania, The gladiatorial games originally were used for a sacrificial rite for the roaming spirits of the dead and in order for them to appease the spirits of the dead they had to offer blood. Traditionally, Gladiatorial games was a required act of funerary offerings towards the death of aristocratic men so it seems like it was a way to show respect but then it gradually changed from being an offering of blood to being placed as important spectacles provided by the emperors and the politicians and wall paintings including mosaics that depicted the gladiator games just shows how popular it was in ancient Rome and in Pompeii. Each seat is arranged differently depending on their