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The first known fight of gladiators in Rome was constructed in 264 BC at the funeral of Decimus Brutus Pera. Thus, his sons honored ashes of his father. In the first battle fought only three pairs of gladiators.

Spectators sit in the fighting severely status. Bottom row or podium (lat. Podium), was appointed exclusively for the emperor, his family, senators and Vestal.

In fighting invited musicians who provided musical accompaniment battle, depending on its development.

The most famous was a gladiator Spartacus. But preserved the names and other famous gladiators: Crixus, Gannicus, caste, and Oenomaus Publilor - the only one of the companions who survived Spartacus.

The Roman emperor Commodus spent as a gladiator fights 735! According to legend, he was stabbed with a knife in the arena. But in fact, it strangled the day before entering the arena. This story is dedicated to the film "Gladiator».

Often happened in the arena bloodbath happened is so great that the fights had stopped to sprinkle blood on the slippery ground with fresh sand.

Fallen burned with a hot iron, to make sure that he is dead and not faking it, and then the body hooks dragged from the arena.

Burning The Colosseum is depicted on the screen saver program Nero. The fact that the phrase "Nero burning Rome" (eng. Nero Burning Rome) sound completely coincide with the name of the program (Eng. Nero Burning ROM).

Movies about gladiators never removed at the Coliseum - it is not sufficiently well preserved for filming. Therefore, the role of the Colosseum to the movies often takes Amphitheatre Mark Antony in the city Tisdra in Tunisia.

Often, the arena was used for punishment or penalty sentenced. Once a jeweler who sold fake jewelry, was sentenced to the arena. When he was brought to the cell from which a lion had to go out and have prepared for the unfortunate death of the cells came CHICKEN! From voltage jeweler collapsed in a faint.




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