Analysis Of Gladiators

Gladiators

When the Romans went to the gladiator fights, they wanted to watch a very exciting and entertaining contest. So, the Romans purposefully set up the gladiator fights to be unfair by making the matchups unbalanced. The gladiator’s living conditions affected the fight. Yet, with all the morals and myths that the Roman government promoted as what was expected of the roman citizens, the brutal battles that were in the coliseum wouldn’t be tolerated, but they were. The unpredictable outcome of these matches were what made these so entertaining.

When the Romans went to the gladiator fights, they wanted to watch a very exciting and interesting contest. So, the Romans purposefully set up the gladiator fights to be unfair by making the matchups unbalanced. The unpredictable outcome of these matches were what made these so entertaining. One way they did this was by putting someone with no advantages up against someone who had a ton of advantages. The secutor and the retiarius (the fisherman) almost always fought each

One moral that was about fair fight was the legend of Hercules. Hercules was sent on a test by Zeus, to do 7 tasks to prove himself worthy of being a god. One of his tests was to fight a lion. He fought with the lion fairly and won. He took the lion’s hide as a trophy for his accomplishment. Another thing that the Roman government tried to promote was fairness and equality. For example, they put the goddess Equitius on coins. This was their attempt to make fairness and equality an important piece of society. Yet, even though the Roman government did try to make equality an important thing for the Roman culture, they were also the ones who provided and sponsored the coliseum and gladiator fights, which turned the audience into a crowd of angry and ruthless gods, deciding who would live and who would die, so it would make them choose whoever they