One of the big puzzles is, what are they for? Why are gladiators doing this? We don't know where they originated. What is known is that gladiator fights were beloved by Romans and a true civic bonding experience.
According to the poem, the two men let out mighty shouts and were described as well-matched, fighting until the emperor raised a finger.
People are often surprised by the fact that we only have one description, in a poem from the end of the first century AD, of an individual gladiatorial contest between two gladiators.
In the movie, the crowd loves all of the blood and gore. Gladiator II imagines that Marcus Aurelius's illegitimate grandson winds up as a slave and gladiator.
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