@@jetpilledmyron2056the autors tend to use acurate source. But it is a comedy, so they care more that the caracters are easily recongnisable than acurate. Like the romans having armor from much later, the gauls having winged helmets, etc... A more acurate french-belgian comics is "Alix" it is not that acurate, but more than Asterix
@@michelecastellotti9172 It's differenciated between "Sport" and "munus" where performing the later one HAD to die as a form of sacrifice. This only happend on special occasions and had to be compensated by the organisator of the games by paying the lanista the amount of money the gladiator was worth. Since they are extremly well trained, fed and cared for it was very expensive to "lose" one of the fighters. Also, even if the weapons where mostly dull they had pointy tips because a gladiator HAD to be colored in blood as part of the origins of the gladiatorial games. The origins where the sacrifices of f.E. slaves when some noble died. So yes, it was rarly that gladiators died (today we estimate like 1 in 10 fights was deadly) but it happend. Even in non muneral fights it could happen when one had bad luck. Also, we have to be clear about "real" gladiators fighting for the spectacula or the poor souls who where put in the arena solely to die threw "Damnatio ad Gladius" or "Damnatio ad Bestias". Cheers
They were also basically Rome's equivalent of a pro-football player or professional boxer. They were just slaves who engaged in a sport and only 1/10 matches even had a death. Gladiator life wasn't even that bad as they got the best medical care and were well fed as they were big investments.
And we should also point out the fact that gladiators didn't die as often as we imagine, just think about it, it would be very hard to train a warrior for a long time just to have him die in one fight, it would just not be convinient. If you think about it, gladiator fights were brutal spectacles, but not that different from modern day mma.
modern media and popular sense conflated gladiatorial fights with "Damnatio ad gladiatori"(execution of criminals via gladiatorial fight), which were two completely separate events that happened at different times at the coliseu, historically when it was execution time (could be via beasts, gladiators, or just normal exeuctions) most people treated it as a lunch break to grab some food, go to the toilet etc and couldn't bear to witness that, Humans were the same no matter the time period.
Gladiators were the UFC fighters and wrestlers in the Roman world and Charioteers were the ancient racers in the Hippodrome - the ancient time's racing tracks. They never killed each other or having them killed by orders of noble people, they were too important or held important social statuses just to be killed.
Well, gladiators were gladiators, it's its own separate sport, more comparable to hema than anything. Pankration is way more similar to mma, just a more extreme version. And wrestling is the same as it's always been, there's nothing new there, they literally do greco-roman wrestling at the olympics.
@piggy6801 he meant WWE style show wrestling with fake backstories and pretend fights, not in as in the style of fighting. It was all a show put on for the masses.
Dziś już niestety nigdzie w przyjemnych warunkach nie można oglądać gladiatorów z prawdziwego zdarzenia, jeśli gdzieś takie są to jest to nielegalna zatęchła dziura a nie piękny amfiteatr
They sometimes killed each other, but it was usually on accident. There was at least one emperor that had gladiators kill each other, but he was highly unpopular
They did kill each other for special events as a unique form of sacrifice. They had to pay their owner a crazy amount since gladiators were star athletes and were insanely expensive to feed, train, and house. Its where the whole thumbs up and down came from, it made special events all that more impactful as the crowd watches if one of their favorite gladiators might actually die
Hollywood portraying gladiator events is like if a far future film industry called zeepzorp portray the UFC as a fight to the death as punishment for tax evaders
