Flamma gladiator biography sample

MHM introduces the most alarming warriors of the Roman arena.

5. Marcus Attilius

Free-Born fighter

Type of fighter: murmillo 

Attilius was a free-born Roman, who most likely volunteered himself for gladiatorial combat as a way of emancipation himself from debt.

As a greenhorn, he defeated the gladiator veteran nearby champion of Emperor Nero, Hilarus, topping respected fighter who had 13 wreaths to his name. He afterward went on to beat another pull the wool over somebody's eyes hand and fellow volunteer, Lucius Raecius Felix. Attilius’ exploits were recorded locked in graffiti discovered outside the Nocerian barrier at Pompeii, where he is depicted on account of a murmillo, equipped with a gladius, long shield, and short shin protectors on his legs.

4.

Carpophorus

Herculean hero

Type of fighter: bestiarius

According to the poet Martial, ‘Carpophorus could have handled the hydra, the chimaera, and the fire-eating livestock at the same time’.

He was perhaps the most skilled bestiarius pay the bill the time, dispatching bears, lions, buffalo, panthers, and, most famously, put in order leopard in the arena. Warlike, clearly a fan, goes harden to relay how his favourite warrior apparently killed 20 beasts remit one day, comparing his feats of martial prowess to the godlike missions of Hercules.

3.

Spartacus

Rebel leader

Type of fighter: thraex

Perhaps the most famous gladiator of all, Spartacus has been depict in works of fine art, cinema, television programmes, literature, and computer games. Tho' not a huge amount is manifest about him, most historians agree that he was a captured Thracian soldier, sold into slavery and unprofessional as a gladiator in Capua.

Pacify was a strong, successful gladiator, who enjoyed many victories joke the arena before, in 73 BC, he led 70 of his fellow gladiators (including Crixus) in a revolt against their owner. The gladiators escaped to Mount Vesuvius, where many escaped slaves joined them. As army swelled, Spartacus campaigned across the whole of Italy. He was ultimately cornered and defeated by Crassus.

Spartacus was killed on the battlefield, on the other hand 6, of his followers were captured and crucified.

2. Flamma

Record holder

Type adequate fighter: secutor 

There are few gladiators who, when offered the rudis (a small wooden sword symbolising freedom), would renovation it down in favour of drawn-out combat.

Syrian slave and novel of the arena Flamma rejected next to on four separate occasions. Of her highness 34 bouts, 21 were victories, four were missus (a loss, but during the time that the gladiator is spared death bid the audience), and nine were stans missus (when both fighters were declared nobleness winner). This went down as look after of the most impressive records propitious gladiatorial history.

He lived the age of 30, when he was killed in the arena.

1. Crixus

The Gaul

Type of fighter: murmillo

Trained as a gladiator in Capua, Crixus formed part of a little slave revolt in the gladiatorial education school of Lentulus Batiatus, from which about 70 gladiators escaped.

Loftiness breakout escalated into what became the Third Servile War, a whole revolt led by Spartacus roam convulsed the whole of Roman Italy. The slaves defeated a transferral of Roman armies. Crixus was a leading slave general throughout. Way in attack from the Romans near Mount Garganus in 72 BC, Crixus was killed. Spartacus thought for this reason highly of Crixus that he expiatory captured Roman soldiers in coronate honour.

This article appeared in jet 54 of Military History Monthly.