The Ultimate Survivor; Roman Gladiator Style

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Sports and Society in Ancient Greece and Rome

So you think you have what it takes to win in the ultimate game of Survivor? Can you outlast all of your opponents? Can you learn real survivor skills that are needed to remain alive? There will be a handsome reward if you are able to even live. If you think you have what it takes read on. But beware, this season we've changed the rules to gladiatorial combat style.

Before actually entering the contest, there will be training. Training will take place either in Rome or one of the provinces. As a gladiator, you will be owned by a lanista and training will take place at their school, or a ludus. While staying at the ludus, the training will be extensive and plentiful. You will be taught the necessary skills of fighting for survival in the arena for combat. The training will be rigorous and tough, to ensure that you do not die. Your death is certain to bring monetary loss to your lanista.

The lanista is able to make a very wealthy profession of "renting" you and his gladiators for the games. Although the lanista would have enough money to be thought of as rich and wealthy, he will never be associated with the aristocrats of society. Being a lanista is thoug

Hoplomachus- The Hoplomachus is provided with a rectangular shield, a short sword, a covering over the left leg (ocrea), protective bands covering your wrists and knee and ankle of your right leg, a helmet and a small chest plate. Obviously, you'll be heavily protected and armed as a Hoplomachus; maybe you'll get lucky and be chosen as one of these types of gladiators.

Inside of the amphitheater is a cross section of Roman society. The first fourteen rows of the amphitheater are reserved for the members of the upper class and aristocrats of society. There are also sections for the plebs, the common citizens, as well. The higher up the theater you go, the lower in society's class structure you are.

Once entered into the life of a gladiator, the only real prize in winning is your life. For that, you are able to see and breathe another day. But, there's more. If you fight enough, fight bravely enough and win the crowd's support and favor, you could be granted your freedom. Although you will never be a Roman citizen, you'll be a free man.

The cast will consist mostly of captured soldiers of foreign nations (where most of the contestants will come from), serious criminals, rebellious slaves and even some people like you, a free citizen. Once a gladiator you will have to take the gladiatorial oath. The oath binds you to "agree to being branded, being chained, being killed by an iron weapon, to pay for the food and drink they received with their blood and to suffer things even if they do not wish too."

The games are given as a funeral gift for the dead, or a munus. The first gladiatorial contents took place in Rome in 264BC when Junius Brutus Pera's two sons sponsored the first ever games in their father's memory. The first games only had three pairs of gladiators fighting. But of recent, much to your dismay possibly, the editors, the sponsors of the games, usually compete in the amount of matches offered. This means more death and carnage for the fans, which is ever pleasing to them and more popularity for the editor.

Once the training is complete, the true test begins. The wooden swords are replaced with metal ones where the slightest errant move is sure to result in death. Up until the late first century BC the games were held in the city's Forum. In the forum would be temporary wooden stands, which would hold the audience as they poured into the stands to see blood

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