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Marcus Atilius, a distinguished citizen
of Pompeii.
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The Atilius family are known back into
Roman history.
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He would have borne all the weight of
responsibility of that name.
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A man who could watch gladiator games
from the safety of the stands.
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Marcus may have been attracted to this
life.
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The crowd screaming your name in the
arena.
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Everything changes.
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when he throws away his comfortable life
to step into the arena, choosing to
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risk his life to fight as a gladiator.
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Why would a free man sign up to be a
gladiator and face death?
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This is no different than the army.
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You are bound by the terms of your
contract.
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You were a piece of property.
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You were there to be used.
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He is about to enter the arena in
Pompeii for the first time.
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He can already hear the roar.
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There's a lot riding on this combat.
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His name, but also his economic freedom.
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The odds are stacked against him as he
faces some of Rome's fiercest fighters.
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For generations, his family may have
been spectators of the game, and now
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he is.
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one of their own descendants, fighting
in the arena.
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But on the horizon, something more
deadly reckons all of Pompeii.
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Pompeii is quite a different place to
Rome.
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Rome is a gigantic city.
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Pompeii is a prosperous and a nice
little town. They're in Campania, near a
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river, which makes trade relatively
easy.
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While being very influenced by Rome,
Pompeii was part of a different range of
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cultures to Rome itself.
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It had all sorts of different peoples
that lived in it over centuries.
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It was a place of complex and diverse
cultures and languages.
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A pretty nice place to be, but certainly
nothing compared to the scale or the
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grandeur of Rome.
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Rome used to be a small city -state, but
over the centuries it has expanded its
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reach across Italy, asserting control
over its neighbours.
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In 89 BC, Pompeii was conquered.
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and it became a Roman colony.
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There are more Romans within the city,
and the Romans are now in serious power
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within that city.
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The Romans had established themselves in
Pompeii. They set about building
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Italy's first stone amphitheater for
gladiatorial combat.
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Up to this point, the gladiatorial
combat was held in temporary wooden
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structures that were put up for the
occasion and taken down again.
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The Romans want to show that they are in
control and that they're kind of
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stamping a Roman identity on the place.
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And an amphitheater was a really
powerful way of doing that.
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It shows the level of resources, of
central control.
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But the most important thing is it was a
first.
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Here was a large building that could
accommodate every citizen in the city
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really said, this is a Roman town.
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Following the declaration of Pompeii as
a Roman colony, retired Roman veterans
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and their families are moved.
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into Pompeii.
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And thereby they displaced the previous
elite and produced a new hierarchy.
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It was probably at this time that the
Genzitilia clan came to Pompeii.
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And Larchus Atilius is part of this
family.
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Marcus Attilius is a free man, and we
can tell that by his name.
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Marcus Attilius had a very old name.
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The Gens Attilia was ancient.
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The Romans thought names had a
religious, sacred quality to them. He
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borne all the history, all the weight of
responsibility of that name. For
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generations, his family may have been
spectators of the game.
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As a free man of the Roman Empire,
Marcus Attilius... likely enjoys the
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privileges of status, comfort and
wealth, and seats to Pompeii's gladiator
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games, where society's lowest fight for
the entertainment of the people.
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Most gladiators are enslaved.
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They have no choice.
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They are legally treated as objects,
commodities. Their only value is related
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what they would have as an enslaved
individual.
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Status was everything for the Romans.
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Gladiators, like sex workers and actors,
were deemed to be of low status in
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Roman society.
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Marcus Attilius comes from privilege far
removed from the lower classes.
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But the arena captivates him, and he
makes a decision that will change his
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forever.
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Marcus Attilius signed up to be a
gladiator.
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Marcus was an auctorati, which means
that he was someone who volunteered to
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gladiator. It means that he would have
been handing away a lot of the
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protections that he would have had as a
free Roman citizen.
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Citizenship means the right to vote, the
right to trade with other Roman
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citizens, the right to be tried under
Roman law, to appeal.
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To be a free man in Rome is to enjoy all
the perks of being Roman. To sign it
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away to become a gladiator had a great
impact on your life.
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A free person was to register that he
was signing over and becoming a
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So there's an official level of
bureaucracy that has to be satisfied for
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become a gladiator. And you are making a
contract.
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You're going to be trained, fed and
clothed, so there's an investment in
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And you have to pay back the investment
by, of course, fighting.
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Generally speaking, you were a piece of
property. You were there to be used.
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Technically, they become a slave when
they become a gladiator, but they can
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their freedom in the arena. They can buy
their freedom if they earn enough. They
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can serve out their contract.
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Gladiator schools were always on the
lookout for talent. They wanted powerful
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physiques with strong spirits who might
thrive in the tense atmosphere of the
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arena.
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And so there were people who were
probably in pretty desperate situations
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would become gladiators because of the
financial rewards that were possible.
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This was a way of buying out your
debtors.
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It's unexpected, perhaps.
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that you would think about enslaved
people making their own money. But in
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ancient Roman world, they could.
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For each fight, we know that gladiators
would have received not just a palm
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branch for victory, but also a financial
reward as well. So a free gladiator
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received a third of the money, and an
enslaved gladiator received a quarter of
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the money.
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We can imagine that Marcus Apilius, a
free man, might have had debt to pay
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There were also some who probably did it
for the thrill, for the chance of fame
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and glory.
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We live in a time where celebrity is
everything, and I don't think the rooms
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that different. The opportunity to be...
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Loved by people, to be adored by people,
but also financially to change your
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status made a big difference.
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Marcus may have been attracted to this
life because it seemed like it was a
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glamorous existence, perhaps. The crowd
screaming your name in the arena and
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being able to become famous on a level
that I think would have been difficult
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for a lot of other people in ancient
Rome.
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Gladiators were sex symbols. They're
attractive, muscular young men.
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to get involved in the technicalities of
how you engage physically with your
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body with other men. That's so masculine
from a Roman perspective.
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Ultimately, they were people who faced
death.
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So there becomes a great mythology that
surrounds gladiators. The fact that
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their blood could heal, their sweat was
a potent aphrodisiac.
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Not just the prowess in the arena seems
to set parts aflutter, but also...
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of gladiators, and their wound seems to
have been a turn -on, as it were.
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There is an elite Roman woman that we
hear of who's willing to throw away
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everything that she had and sail off
into the sunset with her gladiator. He's
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been wounded too many times. Having to
work as a gladiator has really taken its
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toll on him physically, and so she can't
see it because he's a gladiator and
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just so sexually appealing.
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The second or third born son might see
this as a way to make themselves
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prominent, to show their virility, if
you will.
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Romans like to think of themselves as
martial, military, disciplined men. And
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being a gladiator, he would train in
those values. He would personify those
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values.
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There is some respect for that, even
when the idea is that socially it's
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unacceptable to hang out with these
people.
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Marcus Vitellius must have been pretty
young to be a recruit, probably in his
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early 20s.
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He may even have a family of his own to
support, but now he's actually putting
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himself out there in considerable
danger.
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For somebody like Marcus Vitellius,
stepping up to the front door of the
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gladiatorial school willingly and
saying, I would like to fight as a
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You'd have to be nervous.
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A free -born person who was entering a
gladiatorial troop was making a real
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commitment, a real decision.
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Marcus entered an environment which some
have described like a prison. There are
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all sorts of codes of behavior, where
there are all sorts of explicit and
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implicit hierarchies.
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Marcus would have had to work his way up
that gladiatorial hierarchy.
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We may never know for certain.
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Why a free man like Marcus Attilius has
surrendered himself to become a
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gladiator. Perhaps deaths have driven
his choice.
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But now one thing is clear.
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His option is either to fight and
survive or to die.
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Born a free man, Marcus
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Attilius. has signed his life away to
become a gladiator.
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You can imagine that if you're going to
have a lot of shows on, you need a
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steady supply of gladiators.
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Pompeii was a big enough amphitheater
that it needed its own ludus, its own
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training school.
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A wealthy and powerful figure called
Alanista runs the ludus and owns the
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gladiators.
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Alanista could be anyone from former
fighters, to ambitious businessmen.
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Outside Rome, we hear of many people all
over the place, including at least one
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woman who owned her own gladiatorial
troop.
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Enslaved gladiators were kept inside the
ludus. They were courted there.
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But for a free person like Marcus
Atilius serving as a gladiator, it's not
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all clear whether they would have been
barracked with the enslaved gladiators
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whether they would have lived at home.
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In Pompeii, the Ludus had a very large
training field called a palaestra, and
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many, many posts, these palae, singular
palas, where gladiators trained at.
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And your place in the gladiatorial
hierarchy depended upon which post you
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at. The most senior, the highest status
gladiator was referred to as the primus
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palas.
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You have to look at the leaders and the
leaders of the club and the club
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manager. You've got your premier
players, you've got your champions, the
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who you know not only have a good draw
and a good following, but on a good
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performance. You've got your middle -of
-the -way guys, and then you've got the
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people who really aren't very good. Your
standard players kind of really just
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make up the numbers more than anything
else.
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He would initially be a tiro, a recruit
or a rookie, and then as his number of
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victories in the arena climbed, his
status would climb as well, and the
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of money that he would receive for
victories or even for fights would
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Marcus would have been trained in
general strength, which was sometimes
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hordeare.
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barley men because they ate so much food
and that was all about building up
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muscle he will also have acquired
technical skill you know how
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to use the weapon that he was going to
be an expert in you're using wooden
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weapons because you want to make sure as
a linista that your gladios aren't
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damaging themselves before the fight and
thus need to be replaced And then after
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that, you would have had deal dulled
weapons so that you got the correct
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techniques, but also you got used to the
actual weapon you're going to be using
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in the arena.
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He would become a specific type of
gladiator, probably physique as much as
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anything that determined what type of
gladiator you became.
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You underwent a medical.
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And this comes from a Greek tradition of
choosing athletes by their physiques.
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So according to the physique that you
had, were you tall and slender,
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you'd make a good rotiarius.
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Were you bulky and mean and physically
imposing, you'd make a good murmillo or
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maybe a secutor.
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So Marcus is a murmillo. They're named
after this type of fish that went on the
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helmet that they wore.
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We have to remember that Marcus was born
a free man and had a different
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upbringing and different nutrition, I
should guess, than someone who had long
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spent their life in slavery.
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This meant that he had to learn to fight
in a very particular style.
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Each style of fighter had their own
trainer.
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Mamillo are fighting with shield and
sword.
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They're quite heavily protected.
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Marcus Attilius would have had an arm
protector on his right arm, his sword
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And on the left leg, he would have had a
leg protector with a greave.
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And so as he stepped forward under his
shield, that leg would have been
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protected.
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And all of the elements of his costume,
as it were, would set him up visually.
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to be seen specifically by the crowd in
a particular way.
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Marcus Aetilius would have been trained
in the art of performance as well.
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The gladiatorial combat was a show. It
was designed to entertain and impress.
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You would want to draw it out to make it
as thrilling as possible.
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The custom -built barracks that were
erected suggest that they had a training
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arena with seating.
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So it's possible that the public were
invited in and could attend some of
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practice sessions. That must be part of
the training.
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You have to know how to manage if the
spectators are heckling or being rude.
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concentration has to be sustained.
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After months of grueling training,
Marcus Atilius... is ready for his first
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professional fight in front of a crowd.
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Marcus had embarked on his gladiatorial
journey, and as it happened, there were
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going to be major games held in the year
59 at Pompeii, and inviting also the
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neighboring town of Lucaria to witness.
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Ordinarily, the safest type of spectacle
to attend in the Roman world was a
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gladiatorial combat.
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There were a lot of safeguards to
prevent spectators from being hurt.
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People were emotionally vested in the
games. They were very passionate about
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them in antiquity.
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Unfortunately, as we know, even through
modern times, those passions can
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transcribe themselves sadly into
violence.
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Marcus Atilius continues his training,
but an ominous energy grips the city.
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Pompeii is about to experience chaos on
an overwhelming scale.
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We can imagine it was a hot day in
Pompeii.
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The sails were out. This was a big
awning that spread out over the
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which would only be used for the hottest
days and also the most expensive and
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most lavish games.
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This, no doubt, also helped heat up the
atmosphere within the amphitheater.
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At the games held in Pompeii in 59 CE,
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There's a big crowd, but they're not
only Pompeians, they also come from the
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nearby town of New Syria.
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And that has been a long -time rival of
Pompeii, really going right back to the
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start of the 1st century BCE.
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They start sort of insulting each other,
just throwing taunts.
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The insults turn to stone -throwing, and
then knives are drawn.
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Pretty soon, it degenerated into open
violence.
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For a Pompeian like Marcus, even someone
who had trained as a gladiator, the
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amount of bloodshed that day would have
been remarkable.
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And the reason, because it was not just
in the arena and indiscriminate
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slaughter, but it was outside the walls
of the amphitheater itself.
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Far beyond the sand of the central
stage.
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spread out into the city, even into the
gladiatorial barracks next door.
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It's clearly based on loyalty to your
local town. It's Pompeii versus New
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It's comparable to modern football
hooliganism in a way.
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Fanaticism taken to extremes that go way
beyond the sporting level.
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Many Nutherians die.
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The Pompeians win.
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The games are abandoned and the
gladiators are sent back to their
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The Nutherians were on the losing side
and they are the ones that take it to
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Roman Senate.
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This is not normal business for Pompeii.
They would usually have been taking
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care of their own business as much as
possible.
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The authorities in Rome don't like
disorder.
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They don't like this riot that's
happened.
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It ended up getting the Emperor Nero
involved.
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It was viewed as absolutely
extraordinary.
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It was breaking the fourth wall, so to
speak, in a way that shocked the entire
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Roman world.
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And in response, they banned the games
in Pompeii for ten years.
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This is a big thing.
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I mean, this is the highlight of the
entertainment calendar.
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It would be like banning a football team
for a city.
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The reason why the gladiatorial games
were banned as a punishment for this is
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because they were sort of implicated in
making this happen, that if things are
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going to get out of control, it will be
in this sort of environment.
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The Romans took this incredibly
seriously. That is not something that
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impose lightly, taking away people's
gains.
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With the games banned, the future of the
gladiators and the looters is
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uncertain.
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They can neither fight nor earn their
share of the coveted prize money.
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Yet the insatiable thirst for
gladiatorial combat remains.
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Banning the games is a big thing, but
the ban is not enforced.
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The appetite for gladiatorial combat was
too great for the press.
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Finally, the novice is called upon to
fight, and he is facing a legendary
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gladiator, the veteran, Hilarus.
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Not only was Hilarus the great victor,
but he was a member of a very well
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-established gladiatorial troop.
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the troop for Nero. He was a Neroniana.
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Pitted against such a famous gladiator,
Marcus Aetilius' first fight may also
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be his last.
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The games were the high point in the
rhythm of a city.
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And so there must have been a lot of
excitement generated on days when they
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going to occur.
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The size of the amphitheatre is
approximately 20 ,000 people. This was a
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big event.
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This is probably bigger than the
population of Pompeii itself.
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So it shows how people are coming in
from the countryside and from nearby
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The crowd is at capacity.
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One of the most famous gladiators of the
period, Hilarius, is on board to
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fight.
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And if you've got a headline act, like
somebody who is the favourite of the
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emperor, that's a spectacle you
definitely want to see.
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There's a lot riding on this particular
combat for Marcus.
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His name, but also his economic freedom.
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So he's waiting in anticipation,
backstage, for the very first combat of
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career.
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So the games open with a procession
where the giver of the games would lead
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to the stage all of the performers that
the crowd were going to enjoy seeing.
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At some place like Pompeii, a display of
30 pairs of gladiators would have been
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viewed as large.
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The gladiators would warm up dancing or
shaking their weapons. Perhaps they
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offer challenges to their coming
opponents.
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You'd also have little displays where
they would test the sharpness of the
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weapons that the gladiators were going
to fight with.
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And just accentuate the danger that the
gladiator was facing. How brave are
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these men? They're going to use
something that can cut a cantaloupe in
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fight each other with it.
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Having demonstrated the deadly edges of
their weapons, the fighters head
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backstage so the day's spectacle can
truly begin.
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There was a rhythm to the day,
obviously, to manipulate the emotions of
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crowd. And it usually started off with
beast fights.
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Countless beasts are killed for the
crowd's amusement.
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The arena is a place of brutality and
bloodshed. And later, when the
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enter the arena, survival will not be
guaranteed.
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The best estimate is that there was
about a 1 in 10 chance that a gladiator
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would actually die as a result of a
gladiatorial fight.
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Gladiators were too expensive to
squander.
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There was too much that went into their
training, and there was also too much
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potential revenue that could be
generated from their prowess.
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It could never get too out of control
because the entire economy of the
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would collapse.
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There would have been referees, the
referees called a summa ruta, so there
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rules that govern these combat as well.
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There are standards of behavior between
gladiators. They can submit ad digitum
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as soon as they're wounded, or if they
think that they need to surrender, they
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hold up a finger, they show that to the
referee, and the referee then stops the
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fight. But we often see depictions where
they're actually turning their back on
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their opponent to hold up a finger to
signal to the referee. That means they
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trust their opponent enough that their
opponent's not going to take that
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opportunity to actually kill them.
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On the other hand, none of this would
have the appeal unless there was the
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actual chance of death.
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Marcus would certainly have been aware
that the combat could be fatal.
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Climax, as it were, came after lunch
when the professional gladiators
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And this would have been really the
culmination of the entire day's
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what everyone was looking forward to.
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Marcus is still waiting in the wings for
his time to appear in the arena.
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Marcus Atilius has likely spent the day
in suspense, counting down the hours
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till his own brutal debut against
experienced opponent.
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You can imagine that he's putting on his
armor. He's trying to warm himself up,
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really trying to get in focus.
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Probably praying to the god.
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Marcus Aetilius is probably not far away
from his opponent. There's not that
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much room backstage.
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Hillers is part of the emperor's own
team.
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This is a very prestigious school. It's
a prestigious team.
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They will have travelled throughout the
empire.
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They will have done fights.
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He's obviously got a great career. He's
a veteran.
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He's already won 12 out of his 13
fights.
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They're probably trying to out -spike
each other a bit, or out -stare each
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other. And they're trying to sort of
really cut that out and focus on the job
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hand.
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It has been a long journey, but Marcus
Attilius, the free man turned gladiator,
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is finally ready for his first battle in
the arena.
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His opponent, one of the mightiest ever
seen in Pompeii.
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In the tunnels it's quite dark, and then
you walk into the sun and it's almost
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blinding for a minute.
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Marcus is a tyro. He's a newcomer. Even
though he's strong and able, this is his
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first fight, and he's facing a well
-known veteran, Hilarus.
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He is full of anticipation and full of
anxiety that this might be the day of
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death.
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One thing that the Romans...
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delighted in was matching differently
armed gladiators against each other.
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Marcus is a Myrmilo and Hilarus is a
Thryx.
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A Myrmilo is very heavily armed, lower
moving, but if he hit you, then you
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stayed hit.
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The Thryx has a smaller shield and also
a curved or bent sword which would
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enable him to get over the shoulder of
his opponent.
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Hilarus would have been a bit nimbler
than Marcus, but equally probably less
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likely to knock you out with one killer
blow.
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With each strike at Marcus will the
crowd roars.
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Marcus Attilius as a mamillo with his
big, big shield was far more rooted to
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spot. If it's hot outside, you have all
of this heavy armor on, you would wear
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down very quickly in the heat of the sun
in the stress of combat.
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Marcus Attilius must have been much more
still and try and turn to track where
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his opponent was going around the arena.
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The fight itself was certainly not some
sort of brawl. It's very skillful and
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it's often described as being quite
elegant.
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The orchestration of a fight must have
been partly choreographed but partly
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depends very much on responses in the
moment.
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The fighters would be using a series of
strokes to try and gain an advantage
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over the competitor.
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really wear the opponent down, find a
way through their defences.
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It's not all about delivering one killer
blow.
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Marcus's helmet was really big and heavy
and it's really hard to see through the
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visor of both helmets.
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He had to maintain presumably laser
focus on his opponent.
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To even stand a chance against a veteran
like Hilaris, Marcus would have had to
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have been exceptionally strong and able.
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Marcus delivers a crushing blow to
Hilaris.
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Hilaris raises an index finger and
requests a reprieve.
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Marcus is victorious.
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The fight is a huge upset.
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The champion, Hilaris, has lost his
title to the tier of the novice, the
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upcomer, the new start, Marcus Attili.
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The crowd must have been... thrilled to
see a first -time fighter like Marcus
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bring down Ilaris and vanquish him.
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This is a stunning upset.
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Newcomers almost never defeat veterans
of this caliber.
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Marcus has had a very crucial point in
his career.
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He's just come off a big win.
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If he's in the arena to pay off his
debts, we can say that a win such as
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one would have put a huge dent in his
debt.
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Marcus will have had a signing -on fee
for becoming a gladiator, and he will
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have had the share of the profits for
having won.
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He has to capitalize on that fever that
he's created, that excitement.
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The problem is, where does he go
afterwards?
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Because having beat the champion, the
question is, who's he going to fight
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Marcus Atilius must rest and heal.
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His victory over Hilarus has won him
considerable money.
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But he is still contracted to the Ludus'
owner.
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His life as a gladiator continues.
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And soon he will return to the arena to
face another formidable foe.
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Marcus goes on to fight Lucius Recius
Felix.
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A gladiator with a very distinguished
record.
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He has 12 fights to his credit, 12
victories.
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He's a serious fighter.
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He's from one of the big stables.
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When Marcus Attilius faces Lucius Raicus
Felix, his challenge is to win
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the fight.
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Winning an incontrovertible victory is
what gladiatorial combat was about.
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To the crowd's astonishment, Marcus wins
again.
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The fight ends with Lucius kneeling on
the sand floor of the amphitheater,
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taking his helmet off, laying it next to
him, and begging Marcus for missio.
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Marcus Aetilius, he has made it.
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Big time as a gladiator.
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After just two fights, Marcus has
secured his fame.
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Not only has he pulled off some
remarkable victories against some
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foes, but this has meant that he has won
his freedom and has been able to pay
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off his debt.
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He is now free from the personal
enslavement that he took upon himself in
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rocking up to the looters and saying, I
want to fight.
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As a gladiator.
451
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In this case, his career choice did
indeed pay off.
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00:37:01,150 --> 00:37:06,549
One can imagine, after retiring from the
gladiatorial arena, the type of life he
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would have held in Pompeii. He could
have rejoined the Ludith as a veteran
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gladiator, fought for even more money,
almost like a free agent.
455
00:37:17,360 --> 00:37:21,800
He could join the ludic not as a
gladiator, but maybe as a trainer.
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00:37:22,120 --> 00:37:27,359
He might even turn into a gladiatorial
lenista, a businessman involved in the
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show, or he could leave the profession
entirely and do something else.
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00:37:33,280 --> 00:37:39,599
Lockett has attained fame and celebrity,
yet there is something dark on the
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horizon in Pompeii.
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Change is afoot.
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Pompeii had suffered quite a serious
earthquake 17 years previously in 62 AD,
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they're not completely unused to the
idea that there can be natural problems
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00:38:16,300 --> 00:38:17,350
living in that area.
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00:38:17,600 --> 00:38:21,000
But the city had built up quite a lot
again since then.
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00:38:28,920 --> 00:38:34,080
Pompeii exists in the shadow of Mount
Vesuvius, which is an active volcano.
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00:38:37,800 --> 00:38:42,519
Whether they knew it was active or not
is another question because it hadn't
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00:38:42,520 --> 00:38:44,100
erupted for quite some time.
468
00:38:52,900 --> 00:38:57,560
The eruption begins on the 24th of
August, 79 CE.
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00:38:58,151 --> 00:39:05,899
People probably would have been going
around their day -to -day business and
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00:39:05,900 --> 00:39:11,100
then they would have seen the initial
cloud building up coming out of
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00:39:12,080 --> 00:39:15,960
That cloud became bigger and bigger and
more threatening.
472
00:39:22,220 --> 00:39:25,960
Nobody knew what an eruption would
actually look like.
473
00:39:26,980 --> 00:39:30,420
I think to begin with, They would have
known how to react.
474
00:39:30,680 --> 00:39:33,990
I mean, they probably thought that this
is some sign from the gods.
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00:39:34,020 --> 00:39:38,359
I think many of them will have seen it
as a bad omen about what was going to
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00:39:38,360 --> 00:39:39,410
happen.
477
00:39:42,400 --> 00:39:44,460
And then the mountain erupted.
478
00:39:48,180 --> 00:39:50,860
It goes kilometres up into the sky.
479
00:39:51,320 --> 00:39:55,439
Hummers and other sorts of volcanic
debris would have started to rain down
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00:39:55,440 --> 00:39:56,490
the people.
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00:39:56,620 --> 00:39:57,700
The Pompeian.
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00:39:58,170 --> 00:39:59,220
Look at the sky.
483
00:39:59,310 --> 00:40:01,850
The god Vulcan is angry.
484
00:40:02,090 --> 00:40:05,670
Ash and fire rain down. It is
apocalyptic.
485
00:40:06,730 --> 00:40:12,149
For someone like Marcus, who had braved
the terrors of the gladiatorial
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00:40:12,150 --> 00:40:17,730
amphitheater, well, this was an
exponentially more terrifying sight.
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00:40:20,450 --> 00:40:24,889
People were trying to escape, charging
through the city, carrying what little
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00:40:24,890 --> 00:40:26,050
they could with them.
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00:40:28,430 --> 00:40:29,690
They tried to flee.
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00:40:44,910 --> 00:40:49,990
It was a disaster such as the ancient
world had not seen in millennia.
491
00:40:51,880 --> 00:40:55,879
Marcus Attilius could have actually died
in the eruption if he was still in
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00:40:55,880 --> 00:40:58,100
Pompeii and didn't manage to escape.
493
00:40:59,340 --> 00:41:01,500
Vesuvius destroyed Pompeii.
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00:41:01,940 --> 00:41:08,919
A thick layer of volcanic rock and ash
buried the city, preserving a world
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00:41:08,920 --> 00:41:15,759
frozen in time and offering rare insight
into Roman life and the world of the
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00:41:15,760 --> 00:41:16,810
gladiator.
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00:41:17,420 --> 00:41:21,120
Because of the way that Pompeii was
preserved, we have access.
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00:41:21,500 --> 00:41:26,019
to so much more about this society than
we do have for many locations in the
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00:41:26,020 --> 00:41:27,070
Roman world.
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00:41:27,680 --> 00:41:32,679
It is because of the eruption that we
know about Marcus Atilius. The record of
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00:41:32,680 --> 00:41:36,020
him is two graffiti on the walls of
Pompeii.
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00:41:36,640 --> 00:41:41,299
And those graffiti would have long,
long, long since disappeared if the city
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00:41:41,300 --> 00:41:44,190
not been destroyed in that frozen moment
of the eruption.
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00:41:46,460 --> 00:41:51,299
Pompeii gives us a really unique insight
into Roman life. We have big buildings
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00:41:51,300 --> 00:41:55,519
like the Colosseum that survive in Rome,
but we don't have a snapshot into the
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00:41:55,520 --> 00:41:59,220
more intimate details of daily life that
you get from Pompeii.
507
00:41:59,221 --> 00:42:04,539
We get a completely different view of
ordinary people with all their graffiti,
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00:42:04,540 --> 00:42:05,860
for example, that survive.
509
00:42:06,640 --> 00:42:11,419
We have numbers of graffiti that are
about gladiatorial fights, about fights
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00:42:11,420 --> 00:42:15,020
that are going to happen. They record
the results of what happened.
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00:42:15,280 --> 00:42:20,119
We have some graffiti that give little
pictures of gladiators that are held up
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00:42:20,120 --> 00:42:22,770
as heartthrobs or seen as particularly
successful.
513
00:42:24,700 --> 00:42:29,059
We know about the riots in Pompeii
because we have an incredible artwork
514
00:42:29,060 --> 00:42:31,540
exists till today, which is a fresco of
the riots.
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00:42:32,220 --> 00:42:37,479
To have evidence that comes from people
inscribing on the walls is quite
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00:42:37,480 --> 00:42:43,759
something. What is striking is that some
bones of a woman have been found in the
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00:42:43,760 --> 00:42:49,759
Ludus of Pompeii. It is possible that
she was the owner of the Ludus. She was
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00:42:49,760 --> 00:42:53,619
found with quite expensive jewellery,
which suggests a higher status or at
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00:42:53,620 --> 00:42:55,180
higher wealth in the community.
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00:42:56,110 --> 00:43:01,129
we can see where the gladiators would
have been living in Pompeii and where
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00:43:01,130 --> 00:43:02,390
would have been training.
522
00:43:03,250 --> 00:43:07,450
We've also found gladiatorial armour in
the ruins at Pompeii.
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00:43:09,190 --> 00:43:14,249
And we do have Marcus appearing in this
graffiti. That's how we know about the
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00:43:14,250 --> 00:43:19,669
fight that he took part in, because of
the drawing of him and also the
525
00:43:19,670 --> 00:43:23,849
annotations that people made to the
graffiti about what happened exactly in
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00:43:23,850 --> 00:43:24,900
fight.
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00:43:25,360 --> 00:43:30,360
Marcus Attilius achieved greatness
fighting in the amphitheater.
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00:43:30,980 --> 00:43:37,640
The eruption of Vesuvius may have killed
him, but it also preserved his legacy.
529
00:43:38,420 --> 00:43:45,299
It is how we know of the free man who
became a gladiator and a
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00:43:45,300 --> 00:43:48,160
hero to the people of Pompeii.
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00:43:48,210 --> 00:43:52,760
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