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  • Host: Gladiator is either a warrior, healer or a villain to [Rome]. He may have

  • been a slave or a criminal or even a prisoner of war. But now he's become a

  • caged performing animal, fed a diet of high-energy food and savage beatings. He

  • is an object of score, envy, admiration, and even lust. If he is lucky, stardom

  • waits. The crowd will chant his name and he will win his freedom. But his days are

  • spent honing the only skills for which he will ever be praised or valued, the

  • fighting, killing, dying. A: Gladiators are trained in special facilities, the so

  • called ludi or games literally, but they probably weren't a whole lot of fun. This

  • is where gladiators live. These are barrack like facilities. Host: In the

  • decades after the opening of the coliseum, a huge training school with its own arena

  • will be built next door to feed it with skilled fighters. It looks small but only

  • compared to the coliseum itself. In fact, it serves as barracks for hundreds of men.

  • A: The training of gladiators in many ways parallels the training of roman soldiers.

  • Just like a roman soldier, a gladiator has to learn how to wield a sword. Both

  • legionaries and gladiators will train with a gladius, a standard two-edged sword.

  • Host: The gladius is designed for close-quarter work, stabbing, slashing

  • from behind a shield in the press of battle. Many of the gladiators have seen

  • firsthand how the legionaries use them. They were prisoners or war, they'd face

  • them. While legionaries are taught to kill with an efficiency that is almost

  • industrial, the training the gladiators receive is different. They have to be

  • shown it. B: It's spectacle fighting. It's extreme ritualized, and it's a world apart

  • from ordinary fighting, from soldiers fighting. Host: Because the Roman people

  • were obsessed with gladiator fights, we're able to build a very clear picture of what

  • one looked like. There's written evidence, pictorial evidence, graffiti from the

  • time, and most strikingly of all, this armor. A gladiators weapons and his armor

  • are his costume and his props. Andrew: These bits of gladiator's kit were found

  • both in Herculaneum and Pompeii. And they list very beautifully, the extraordinary

  • variety that you need to make a gladiatorial spectacle. Look at this guy

  • with this helmet with tiny little holes. That gives him good protection. Host: The

  • various styles of armor are meant to represent the battle dress of Rome's

  • conquered enemies. Andrew: This helmet is supposed to be a Thracian's helmet. Now,

  • let's imagine that the Thracians were once upon a time gladiators who came from

  • Thracian were kitted out like Thracian soldiers. But no Thracian soldier ever

  • wore such a fancy thing, with all this elaborate visor around his face, this

  • really elaborate line to the helmet and then the decoration of it, wonderful

  • medusa's face. Host: Real battle armor offers its wear of the best possible

  • combination of mobility and protection. But again, gladiator armor is different.

  • Its purpose is to ensure that the spectators, connoisseurs of violence, see

  • a very balanced contest. Andrew: Here's another way of doing it. You've got bigger

  • holes from the eyes and you can see his helmet is much more decorated. But suppose

  • he's pitted against the [next man], who chucks his net over you, brings you down,

  • and then gets at your body, which, though your head is beautifully protected, your

  • body is exposed. Nobody should be fully protected. Everyone's got to have weakness

  • and the opponent knows which weakness to go for and of course, all spectators know

  • which weakness, and they're cheering on and their seeing the skill with which each

  • one both defends himself and attacks. Host: Training and experience are

  • everything. A gladiators' most dangerous fight is always going to be his first. He

  • has on average a one in six chance of dying every time he steps in the arena,

  • and these statistics are sued by the fact that in every generation, a handful of

  • elite killers fight dozens of bouts and win every time. For those few, fear

  • revealed, loathed and applauded, a kind of celebrity beckons.

Host: Gladiator is either a warrior, healer or a villain to [Rome]. He may have

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當羅馬統治的時候3-DVD套裝 (When Rome Ruled 3-DVD Set)

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