... as good as he could they where being trained how to be killed. For that the gladiators where known as the funeral men, or soon to be dead. 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, o...

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