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Female Gladiators- Did they Exist?
🕑 Added 2022-07-30 18:34:32 +0000 UTCNEW VIDEO: Female Gladiators, Did they Exist?
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In this history documentary we seek to answer the question: Did women ever take to the sands of the arena as female gladiators?
Did women ever take to the sands of the arena as female gladiators? It turns out that we do have many records of this occurring from ancient writings, artistic depictions, and archaeological findings. As one might imagine, the idea of women fighting, let alone fighting in the arena, was exotic and contrary to traditional norms. Many showrunners sought to include them in their own gladiatorial games to advertise such events as being more spectacular than the competition.
It appears to have begun around the reign of Emperor Augustus, as is evidenced by legislation at the time, which sought to limit male and female aristocrats from performing in the games. The Roman Emperors who followed had fewer qualms with this. For instance, Nero was said to have been a huge fan of female gladiators and had many of them perform in his various games. Over the following centuries, we see evidence of Female Gladiators popping up across the Empire. This practice, however, would eventually begin to decline around the reign of Septimius Severus, who supposedly outlawed Gladiatrixes in the 2nd century CE.
