(October 10, 2012 at 10:23 pm)Shell B Wrote: Types of gladiators and the weapons they use will easily give you 800 or more words. You can elaborate about the weapons and how they tie into Ancient Roman culture. The types of gladiators also say a lot about that society, given that status had a lot to do with what your job was in the arena. Let me know if you need help with that. I might still have some of my research.
I just kind of get a little confused as to what counts as "describing the culture". Does me explaining that they used a gladius and square shield count as "describing the culture"? I went a little further and explained that there were a lot of sexual connotations, like the gladiator's blade being seen as his penis. Juvenal tells us women were "craving ferrum" which means "iron" or "sword" which is street talk for penis. Apart from that though, I haven't really talked about the gear they used.
What aspects of the Colosseum did your research touch on?
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