This document outlines the history of gladiators and emperors fighting as gladiators in ancient Rome. It discusses how gladiators originated from a religious ceremony offering blood to appease spirits of the dead. Gladiators included slaves, criminals, and volunteers who fought other gladiators or wild animals in venues like the Colosseum. Some Roman emperors also participated in gladiatorial combat, including Caligula, Titus, Hadrian, Lucius Verus, Caracalla, Geta and Didius Julianus. The document provides an overview of gladiatorial combat and the different types of fighters involved.

1. Emperors and Gladiators

2. Outlines
 Gladiators
 Origin
 Introduction to Roman Empire
 Emperors as Gladiators
 Combat
 With gladiators
 With wild animals
 Conclusion

3. Gladiators
 An armed combatant in
Roman Republic and
Roman Empire
 Fights with:
 Other Gladiators
 Wild animals
 Condemned Prisoners

4. Gladiators
 Comprised of
 Captured Runaway
 Slaves
 Criminal
 Volunteers

5. Gladiators
Origin
 A part of a religious ceremony that dead would
be attended to next world by armed attendants
 The spirit of dead would be appeased with the
offering of blood

6. Gladiators
 Introduction to Roman Empire
 Introduced in 264 BC
 Decimus Iunius Brutus Scaeva honoured
his father Brutus Pera

7. Emperors as Gladiators
 Caligula, Titus, Hadrian,
Lucius Verus, Caracalla,
Geta and Didius Julianus
 Claudius
 Commodus

8. Combat With Gladiators
 Colosseum
 Training
 Spectators
 Referee
 Signal to give up fight
 Final Outcome

9. Combat with Animals
 Bestiarii
 Vanatores
 Animals used: lion, bear,
camel, elephant etc

11. Refrences
 en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladiators
 www .murphsplace.com/gladiator/colosseum.htm
 penelope.uchicago.edu/~grout/ency
clopaedia_romana/gladiators/gladiators.html