![]() ![]() You can find more information about the different types of gladiators like the murmillo, the retiarius, or the Tharacian here in my article. ![]() You can find more information on the career opportunities for retired gladiators in my article here.Įvery one of the trainers, so-called doctores, was a member of a specific type of Gladiator!Īgainst popular belief, gladiators did have specific types with clearly set equipment and opponent. The gladiator trainers were usually former gladiators who were either too old or had been to badly injured to return to the arena themselves. Training beginsĪs soon as the recruits, now called tirones, were seen fit for training the owner of the school would turn them over into the hands of their trainers. The gladiators’ oath consisted of him promising his owner to uncomplainingly accept any punishment and death by fire or sword. But first, every recruit would law down an oath in which he pledged his life to the owner of the gladiator school. The men who were seen as fit to start training, the so-called novicii, would regularly undergo medical inspection during the course of their training. The really unlucky ones often made their way into the mines. Men who seemed too weak or for other reasons unlikely to finish training were sold to other owners. After arrival, these men would be inspected by a physician (the gladiator schools were usually able to employ the best physicians, more on that here in my article. The training process began the moment new candidates entered the gladiator school. More on why gladiators were expected to die without visible emotion or begging for their lives in my article here.īut let`s focus on how gladiators were trained to use their weapons: New candidates arriving at the Gladiator school That last part, the dying without visible emotion, was one of the things Romans admired Gladiators for. That discipline was necessary since Gladiators were not only taught the different ways to handle their weapons but also how to die without showing emotions. That means that the men who were training to become gladiators were the property of the owner of the gladiator school! The owner could train and punish these men like he saw it fit.ĭisciplining men for the smallest wrongdoing by whipping or burning them with glowing irons was normal for maintaining discipline. Click here for more information on the different ways men could end up in a gladiator school and why some free men decided to leave their freedom behind to fight in the arena. It is important to know that all Gladiators inside a gladiator school had a servile social status. ![]()
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