Gladiators http://romancombatsports.yuku.com/forums/1 en-us Copyright 2006, Yuku feeds@yuku.com (FeedMaster) webmaster@yuku.com (WebMaster) Wed, 15 Mar 2006 19:10:02 GMT Yuku Feeds 1.0 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 Yuku http://static.yuku.com//feed/bypass/images/button-yuku.png http://romancombatsports.yuku.com/forums/1 Yuku - free hosted forums and profiles 88 31 {pics-1.1 "http://www.icra.org/ratingsv02.html" l gen true for "http://yuku.com" r (nz 1 vz 1 lz 1 oz 1 cz 1 ) "http://www.rsac.org/ratingsv01.html" l gen true for "http://yuku.com" r (n 0 s 0 v 0 l 0 )) Search Search Domain q http://yuku.com/search/direct/ <![CDATA[ Boxing,mixed martial arts, and wrestling fights,TONS OF THEM ]]> http://romancombatsports.yuku.com/topic/362/t/Boxing-mixed-martial-arts-and-wrestling-fights-TONS-OF-THEM.html right now its just a temp forum but there will be a main site along with an improved forum opening this week.The main site will feature streaming fights from boxing,mma,and wrestling wich will also be available for download ,and every pay per view is garanteed to be on the website within 2 hours after the broadcast ends. The server has 300 gig and 1,000,000 mb transfer rate so we will be able to download directly from the server... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (DaGrandWiz) http://romancombatsports.yuku.com/topic/362 Wed, 15 Mar 2006 19:10:02 GMT <![CDATA[ Gladiator information ]]> http://romancombatsports.yuku.com/topic/363/t/Gladiator-information.html
I'm Wim and I'm new here, I've been searching around for info about gladiators etc. But a book is more pleasant to read so does anyone recommend a certain book? I need info about mortality rates, how old they got, what kinda weaponry they used, everything that has to do with gladiators. I just found this site, looks intresting, but now I'm going to sleep en tomorrow or so I'll take a better look.

Cheers!
Wim ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Wimpressive) http://romancombatsports.yuku.com/topic/363 Wed, 07 Sep 2005 14:18:34 GMT <![CDATA[ Gladiators live at the Guild Hall? ]]> http://romancombatsports.yuku.com/topic/364/t/Gladiators-live-at-the-Guild-Hall-.html
Sorry if this question is in the wrong place, but I've failed to find any info by websearching. Do they have a website? :(
Mike
]]> feeds@yuku.com (Mike Rush) http://romancombatsports.yuku.com/topic/364 Wed, 22 Jun 2005 02:42:35 GMT <![CDATA[ hoplomachus Q's ]]> http://romancombatsports.yuku.com/topic/375/t/hoplomachus-Q-s.html feeds@yuku.com (AGLarsen) http://romancombatsports.yuku.com/topic/375 Sun, 25 Apr 2004 12:19:36 GMT <![CDATA[ Chester Amphitheatre Project ]]> http://romancombatsports.yuku.com/topic/377/t/Chester-Amphitheatre-Project.html
there is a new website for this on which you will be able to view live digs etc and hs much information about previous digs done by Keith Matthews

chester amphitheatre project
 feeds@yuku.com (venicone) http://romancombatsports.yuku.com/topic/377 Wed, 07 Apr 2004 04:53:32 GMT <![CDATA[ 17-20th March in Puteoli ]]> http://romancombatsports.yuku.com/topic/378/t/17-20th-March-in-Puteoli.html
A member of our group recently found some inscriptions on the web. One of them gave the following

CIL IV. 3.4 #9970

GLAD.PAR.XX.A.SVETTI | ////TENIONIS//TNIGRI.LIBERTI.PVGNA | PVTEOL. XVI. XV. XIV. XIII. KAL. AP. VENATIO. ET | ATHLETAE/////ERVNT.

Twenty pairs of Gladiators, belonging to Aulus Suettius Antenio and to his freedman Niger, will fight at Puteoli on the 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th of March. There will also be a beast hunt and athletic... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (gashford) http://romancombatsports.yuku.com/topic/378 Mon, 05 Apr 2004 13:23:08 GMT <![CDATA[ Fat Gladiators. ]]> http://romancombatsports.yuku.com/topic/372/t/Fat-Gladiators-.html
The recent finds of the bones in Ephesus suggest that the gladiators where generally heavily muscled but still fat men, it is presumed that this fat meant they could sustain wounds that might be life threatening to their slimer counterparts.

Many statues of gladiators show them as either herculean in... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (gashford) http://romancombatsports.yuku.com/topic/372 Mon, 05 Apr 2004 04:44:47 GMT <![CDATA[ Amazonia and Achillia ]]> http://romancombatsports.yuku.com/topic/379/t/Amazonia-and-Achillia.html
Recently I was fortunate enough to go to the British Museum and get a few pictures (thanks Gary) of a few bits and pieces that they have there.

Amazonia and Achillia were on display and a picture that we took can be found here.

What concerns me are the two figures in the bottom corners. Receved information from various sources suggests... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (gashford) http://romancombatsports.yuku.com/topic/379 Thu, 25 Mar 2004 16:30:43 GMT <![CDATA[ Painted Statues ]]> http://romancombatsports.yuku.com/topic/381/t/Painted-Statues.html
A recent thread on the Roman Army Talk forum showed the following image of Augustus. The paint work has been studied and this reconstruction made based upon UV work carried out on the statue.

It is amazing to see the colour at work on this statue and it reminds me very much of the late 1950's when colour made its way to TV and the shows were very garish because at last colour could be used on TV. I wonder how much of the garish colour (instead of todays muted tones)... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (gashford) http://romancombatsports.yuku.com/topic/381 Thu, 11 Mar 2004 04:05:55 GMT <![CDATA[ Laquaerius? ]]> http://romancombatsports.yuku.com/topic/380/t/Laquaerius-.html feeds@yuku.com (John Maddox Roberts) http://romancombatsports.yuku.com/topic/380 Tue, 02 Mar 2004 13:47:37 GMT <![CDATA[ Ludus vs Ludus or Internal fights? ]]> http://romancombatsports.yuku.com/topic/382/t/Ludus-vs-Ludus-or-Internal-fights-.html
I imagine the answer to this question will be a bit of each.

Something that has puzzled me for a long time now is how the fights were arranged. Would a Ludus give a show and fight amongst themselves, or would members of one ludus be pitted against another? Any ideas?

If they would be expected to fight among themselves this would be worth a lot of thought because they would possibly be expected to kill men they may have grown fond of and thought of as friends... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (gashford) http://romancombatsports.yuku.com/topic/382 Sun, 29 Feb 2004 16:30:10 GMT <![CDATA[ A change from religion to politics? ]]> http://romancombatsports.yuku.com/topic/383/t/A-change-from-religion-to-politics-.html
Recently I read "The Age of the Gladiators" by Rupert Matthews, a full review later.

Bu in it he mentions that the gladiatorial fighting at funerals slowly changed from sacrifice and obligation to remember the dead man to a contest and opportunity to promote the living relatives of the dead man.

It seems common knowledge that the games went from religion to politics but do we have any ideas when this happened, I have always suspected it was in the... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (gashford) http://romancombatsports.yuku.com/topic/383 Tue, 17 Feb 2004 10:22:29 GMT <![CDATA[ Sword ]]> http://romancombatsports.yuku.com/topic/386/t/Sword.html
Any ideas ... please say Gladiators !!!!

Conalwww.klascement.net/kt/beelden/420_007.gif ]]> feeds@yuku.com (ConalM) http://romancombatsports.yuku.com/topic/386 Mon, 09 Feb 2004 11:30:19 GMT <![CDATA[ test ]]> http://romancombatsports.yuku.com/topic/387/t/test.html www.klascement.net/kt/beelden/420_007.gif ]]> feeds@yuku.com (ConalM) http://romancombatsports.yuku.com/topic/387 Mon, 09 Feb 2004 11:27:38 GMT <![CDATA[ Arm Guard on RAT ]]> http://romancombatsports.yuku.com/topic/384/t/Arm-Guard-on-RAT.html feeds@yuku.com (ConalM) http://romancombatsports.yuku.com/topic/384 Mon, 09 Feb 2004 11:25:33 GMT <![CDATA[ The hostile thumb ]]> http://romancombatsports.yuku.com/topic/376/t/The-hostile-thumb.html
Just to let you know there is a new theory on the " thumbs up" sign in the arena. Anthony Corbell wrote a book: Nature embodied, Gesture in ancient Rome ISBN 0-691-07494-1.
In it he explores all kinds of gestures. I was interested in signs used at offerings and funerals. Chapter 3 is called the hostile thumb. Here Corbell suggests and devends the idea that " thumbs up" was the sign for killing a defeaded gladiator. A thumb pressed upon a fist should have... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Gaivs Civilis) http://romancombatsports.yuku.com/topic/376 Sun, 08 Feb 2004 10:31:05 GMT <![CDATA[ Pompeii Gladiator ]]> http://romancombatsports.yuku.com/topic/392/t/Pompeii-Gladiator.html
Was is common for a Roman citizen to be wandering around the streets carrying a sword? Were swords generally only issued to troops and gladiators and only when they needed to fight, or could an ordinary citizen buy and carry a sword?

]]> feeds@yuku.com (dsunlin) http://romancombatsports.yuku.com/topic/392 Tue, 06 Jan 2004 14:52:03 GMT <![CDATA[ Oil Lamp with depicted equipment. ]]> http://romancombatsports.yuku.com/topic/389/t/Oil-Lamp-with-depicted-equipment-.html
I have been lent the oil lamp below by Tim Edwards. It appears to be post Augustan reforms judging by the equipment depicted, although the retiarius is conspicious by his absence.

I have posted two images and can post close ups if people want them. The first is the oil lamp the second shows highlighted equipment which I have annoted for ease of discussion later.

Thanks To Tim for the loan of the oil lamp, at least here is some evidence that I have it still in... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (gashford) http://romancombatsports.yuku.com/topic/389 Sat, 27 Dec 2003 16:58:41 GMT <![CDATA[ Gladiator Schools in first century? ]]> http://romancombatsports.yuku.com/topic/374/t/Gladiator-Schools-in-first-century-.html
I am polishing up the final draft of my eighth book, 'The Gladiators from Capua'. It is set during the inaugural games of the Flavian amphitheatre in the spring of 80 AD. Thousands of gladiators fought during these games so they must have come from all over Italy. Apart from the Ludus Iulianus at Capua, I wonder if we know the names of any schools or *familiae* that would have been around in AD 80.

Sadly I can't use the 'Magnus Ludus' because it was set up by... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (FlaviaGemina) http://romancombatsports.yuku.com/topic/374 Thu, 11 Dec 2003 05:25:46 GMT <![CDATA[ Emperors involvment? ]]> http://romancombatsports.yuku.com/topic/393/t/Emperors-involvment-.html
I am trying to build a catalogue of the various Emperors and their involvement in the arena in some form or other such as ...

Vespasian - Starting the Flavian Amphitheatre in Rome
Titus - inaugural games and finishing the above amphitheatre
Nero - using gladiators as body guards on nights out on the town.
Commodus - wanting to reopen the senate as a secutor

So on and so forth, I will post the fuller list when I get a chance, but can you think of any... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (gashford) http://romancombatsports.yuku.com/topic/393 Tue, 02 Dec 2003 04:24:34 GMT