CLA 1102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Gladius, Theta, Apuleius

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLA 1102
• Professor: Richard Burgess

Document Summary

In big games, the emperors buy freed men. At the amphitheatre missum/missos fac give him a break. Murmillo: gallic gladiator, big check pieces and large hat brim, murmillo fish, standard roman issue sword (not heavily armed) Samnite: standard gladiator with a big helmet, big crest, huge visor, two big feathers stick out of their helmets, standard sword and shield made of plywood, no greaves on the right but on the left. Hoplomachus(evolved from samnite: heavily armed, huge helmet and visor, roman military sword and shield. Secutor: similar to the samnite, but with a round helmet. Mainz: called a mainz since it was found by archeologists in the city of mainz: used to cut people"s hands off, stabbing them (not slashing, last century bc of the republic, evolved from the gladius hispaniensis. Pompeii style sword: found in pompeii: thin, straight, pointed tip, a little shorter than the mainz, used during the empire.