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| | Gladiators and Caesars, the Power of Spectacle in Ancient Rome: Exhibition (and comment on the movie 'Gladiator') (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25) |
 | | Gladiators could be prisoners of war, slaves, condemned criminals or even volunteers, who were trained under the eye of their owner (lanista) in gladiatorial schools. |
 | | The top gladiators, charioteers and actors were folk heroes, and the power of their universal appeal was recognised and exploited by politicians and emperors such as Julius Caesar, Augustus and Nero, who used games to manipulate a sometimes volatile public, whether to pacify or reassure at times of crisis or to achieve political ends. |
 | | In between are bronze models of chariots, gladiators' tombstones, bronze and pottery figurines of gladiators and wrestlers, stone busts and statues of boxers, theatre masks of pottery and stone, a floor mosaic with a pair of gladiators, frescoes and stone reliefs showing scenes from plays and a plate with a portrait of an actor. |
| www.culturekiosque.com /art/exhibiti/rhegladiators.html (771 words) |
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