Gladiators

Armour

• they would sometimes fight with there bear chest
• they were allowed to wear sandles
• the balteus which is a sword belt
• The manicae are wraps of leather and cloth for arm and wrist padding

Importance

• fair play
• spectacle
• benefit

Importance

• fair play
• spectacle
• benefit

Weapons

• sword
• shield
• spear
• net
• fist
• leg

fighting against animals

• tigers
• lions
• elephants Everyone associates the Coliseum with gladiators, but animal-on-animal clashes were also popular spectacles. Prior to the reign of emperor Claudius, a few witnesses recalled a particularly gory battle staged between an elephant and an enraged rhinoceros which the former won after picking up a broken spear-point with its trunk and gouging the eyes out of its horned adversary.