The gladiators almost dead men; it was just a matter of time until one would be killed. The gladiators fought at graves, these fights where actually celebrations to honor the man that had died. Then the fights of the gladiators became to a form on entertainment. Over time the sport had become more elaborate and the performance of the gladiators had to become bigger, later on the fights of the gladiators where moved into coliseums and arenas.
The contests of the gladiators became popular in Rome at about 264 B.C.(P.149) Gladiator’s originally fought for the honor a dead father or relative (P.150). The first gladiatorial combats therefore must have been taken place by the grave of the person who was being honor. The gladiators got more and more amusing for the public so that things where added to the fights
In the starting phases of the gladiator fights, men fought to honor the dead man. Barely two centuries after the first gladiatorial fights, they had become centrepiece of the roman games.(P.150) When the gladiators became popular they were upgraded the gladiator was kind of tuned like you could tune a car with neat parts, some gladiators got new armour and weapons. However, there weren’t that many gladiators available. Slaves, prisoners of war, or a thief, were forced to fight, however there were some volunteers (150). The ones that have chosen freely had to give up all of their rights, I wouldn’t see why someone would want do something like that. To fight was just as good as the death sentence. Christians had to fight because of their belives not being the same so the emperor condemned fighting in the arenas. During th
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