Roman Gladiators

Gladiatrix | 21:17 Sat 12th Jul 2014 | History

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Anyone know where to find good reliable info on gladiators (Particarly female ones)?

Thanks

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boxtops

Google....

Old_Geezer

Referring to the TV contest, or real ones ?

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Mosaic

The link to Wikipedia provided by Methyl is well worth following up, as it is properly referenced and you can ascertain or evaluate any of the points by going deeper to the original source material. Problem is, the world of comic book heroes on the one hand, and feminist loony nonsense in archaeology on the other hand, has led to a little overexcitement regarding the subject. Most famously the finds made at Southwark a couple of decades ago, now in the Museum of London, based a towering hypothesis for the existence of female gladiators in London on very scant evidence.

Gladiatrix

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Thank you for your answers!

atalanta

One of the finest ever sources for ancient history is the Encyclopaedia Britannica 11th edition of 1910. Only very big libraries still have this - such as the Bodleian in Oxford and the British Library in London. Probably the University of Cambridge and a few other major University Libraries will have it.

Mosaic

EB of 1910 won't refer to recent archaeological discoveries though.

Peter Pedant

as Mosaic is an intellectual - I liked his ppt on anthropology
he may be able to get onto JSTOR - you wont be able to without moolah - quite a lot I think - and then search for "Gladiatrix"

I can imagine there will be very many ( refs I mean )

Mosaic

Peter beedin Pedant, for the record I'm a gurlie and I barsteward do not enjoty access to Jstor and its works an pomps.
I am however a battle-scarred archaeologist living and working in a non-academic environment. Can I help it if I know stuff?

Peter Pedant

well that has put her in a bit of a bate !

I was looking for my own fantastic contribution to archeology....
when i cam across:

http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=8400484

which is the portal for the JRS ( Journal of Roman Studies )
and if you plug in gladiolii into their search option

you get 6 answers - none of which look very tempting......

and I have no idea why Mosaic DOESNT have access to JSTOR - I think she ought.

Mosaic

On account of. s/he can't be bovvered registering.