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