Comment on My Review of The Arena (1974)

Deftdrummer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

Neat. Historically speaking however, women were very rarely gladiators, the ones that were were there by choice. There are about two known examples and they did not fight other gladiators, but mostly took part in beast hunts.

It was considered grotesque and woefully maligned with tradition to have female gladiators and in fact was part of why Commodus was so disliked.

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