| WereKitten said: @steven Uhm, you described a lot of activities that happened in the arenas, but that are not gladiatorial games. |
Like what? Like I noted in my post, there were many similar events involving fighting; For the example I used, Bestiarius. Exactly what error are you trying to point out?
If you want to be really picky, you are absolutely wrong. People who trained as gladiators did fight in venationes from time to time.
There were many more than four types of gladiators and battles... Catervarii fought in groups larger than two, Equites fought on horse back, Essedarii fought from chariots, Laqueatores fought using a noose... I don't remember the rest of the names but there were even gladiators who fought with blinding helmets. That would definitely make for an awkward video game...
Usually, the Gladiator shows were one on one. That did not bar gladiator shows from including chariots, groups, boats, or lions. They all happpened at one point or another, regardless if they were the norm.
In Alan Bakers the Gladiator on page 115 (which I site because you can find it on google books; he is probably citing The Sorrows of the Ancient Romans: The Gladiator and the Monster by Barton which is not available on Google Books but is probably available in your local university or central municipal library), he names and describes the Emperors who fought as gladiators, these include but are not limited to Nero, Titus, Hadrian, Caligula, and Commodus.
More importantly are the colloquialisms In ancient Rome, when people were going to the Coliseum for the events leading up to and including the gladiator shows would say that they were going to see the gladiators. Today, we use gladiators and gladiatorial combat to describe all of those events in the layman's terms.
I would cite regulation, but I know you will simply ignore it.
