Daily Life as a Roman Gladiator | Human Voiced, No Ads

00:00:00 Intro and Welcome
00:02:26 Origins
00:08:42 Slaves, Volunteers, and the Gladiators’ Oath
00:15:50 Daily Life in the Ludus
00:27:02 Types of Gladiators and Fighting Styles
00:40:42 The Day of the Games
00:54:24 Fame, Glory, and Social Perception
01:03:51 Thoughts and Conclusion


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Sources and Further Reading

Cicero (45 BC). Tusculan Disputations (on gladiators’ endurance of pain and death).

Petronius (c. 60 AD). Satyricon (gladiator’s oath “uri, vinciri, verberari, ferroque necari”).

Seneca (c. 65 AD). Epistulae Morales (Moral Letters to Lucilius) – Letter 37 (gladiator’s oath and Stoic perspective).

Pliny the Elder (77 AD). Natural History – XVIII.72, XXXVI.203 (diet of gladiators as “barley-eaters” and ash drink tonic).

Martial (c. 80 AD). Liber Spectaculorum (On the Spectacles) – (duel of Priscus and Verus, other arena epigrams).

Juvenal (c. 110 AD). Satires – Satire VI and others (Eppia’s affair with a gladiator; “pollice verso” crowd gesture).

Tertullian (c. 200 AD). De Spectaculis (On the Shows) – (origin of games in funerary rites and Christian critique).

Plutarch (c. 100 AD). Life of Crassus (account of Spartacus and the gladiator war).

Barton, Carlin (1993). The Sorrows of the Ancient Romans: The Gladiator and the Monster (analysis of gladiatorial psychology and cultural role).

Futrell, Alison (1997). Blood in the Arena: The Spectacle of Roman Power (modern study of gladiatorial games in social and political context).

Information sourced from Wiki, Gutenburg, JSTOR, primary and secondary sources. All information is congruent with archaeological and history evidence at the time of recording.