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Gladiators Terms! Editor Munerarius Lanista Ludus vs. ludi Infamia: one marked by infamia cannot serve in the army, vote for magistrates or on laws, serve on juries, can be tortured and killed. Auctoratio:

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Gladiators

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Terms!

 Editor  Munerarius  Lanista  Ludus vs. ludi  Infamia: one marked by infamia cannot

serve in the army, vote for magistrates or

n laws, serve on juries, can be tortured

and killed.

 Auctoratio: tribune of the plebs, lanista or

editor

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Who are gladiators?

 Slaves, criminals, captives of war, and

‘handsome and well-built young men’?

 Wealthy elite?

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‘Pursuer’

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Secutor

Grave Stele, 2nd CE, Turkey

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Secutor and Retiarius

2nd-3rd CE, Colchester

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2nd-3rd CE, Secutor and Retiarius (ref with summa rudis)

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2nd-3rd CE

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‘Attacker’

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Tombstone of a Provocator Gladiator

2nd-3rd CE, Ephesus

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Provocator Helmet

1st CE, Quadriporticus Pompeii

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‘Heavy weapons fighter’

Thrusting spear is the primary weapon; dagger is the backup

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‘Fish’ (dorsal fin?)

Festus (cited by Dunkle): ‘I do not attack you, I attack a fish. Why do you flee me, Gaul?’

-an offshoot of the Gaul,

whose helmet was decorated with a fish. SCUTARII (scutum)

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Netman

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Murmillo and Hoplomachus (thrusting spear), 1st BCE

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Skeletal wounds

f a murmillo

gladiator

2nd-3rd CE, Ephesus

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Terracotta Lamp, murmillo and a thraex

2nd CE Thraex—sole survivor of the ethnic based gladiators in the imperial period; captives in the 2nd-1st BCE, Mithradatic Wars; Spartacus; traditionally paired with a hoplomachus or a murmillo

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Short curved sword, square shield

Carried a parma Parmularii (Caligula)

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Helmet of a murmillo

1st CE, quadriporticus, Pompeii