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GLADIATORIAL GAMES HISTORY PAPER

Date Submitted: 05/06/2004 05:29:08
Category: / History / European History
Length: 3 pages (950 words)
Gladiatorial Games Paper The first gladiatorial contest at Rome took place in 264 BC as part of aristocratic funerary ritual, a munus or funeral gift for the dead. Munus is a duty paid by descendants to a dead ancestor. This ceremony was done annually, or in five year intervals. Until the late first century, the gladiatorial games were private ceremonies. The second century AD scholar Festus had suggested that the Gladiatorial games be a substitution to …
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…and were rarely used against gladiators on foot. The Essedarii was armed in a variety of fashions and charged one another in slave driven chariots in the Celtic manner. The Gladiatorial games were very important in the roman culture. SITATION- http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Olympus/3296/gladiators.htm http://abacus.bates.edu/~mimber/Rciv/gladiator.htm http://ablemedia.com/ctcweb/consortium/gladiator1.html NOTE** This Paper is 2 pages, if Double spaced and Size 12 Arial font.
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