Evidence Of A Gladiator

A gladiator was a armed combat men who entertained people who came watch them in the Roman Empire who fought in violence with other gladiators. Some was volunteers who risked their lives.

Most were considered as slaves, schooled under harsh conditions, socially marginalized even in death.
Their origin gladiators offered spectators in fighting or dying will. There is evidence of it in funeral rites during the Punic wars of the third century. The gladiator games lasted for thousands of years, the games early declined in the fifth century.

After the adoption of Christianity in
380, on later in the century's there was a man named Livy who wrote they was first held in 310.
These preference preformed most standard histories of