Tuesday, 15 July 2025

Gladiators

 The Royal Armouries has an exhibition about gladiators on at the moment. I was pleased to see it was rather busy when I went, although that may have had something to do with the building having highly effective air conditioning on an extremely hot day.


There were some fascinating exhibits, not at all well represented by the photos I took. (I didn't compensate very effectively for the low light levels.) For example there was lots of detail about how they built the Colosseum and also how they marketed the shows.



The personal and professional lives of the gladiators was well covered. I was most surprised that they ate a mostly vegetarian diet, less so that their average age of death was thirty.



The headgear of the chap on the left doesn't at first glance seem very well designed for combat; his peripheral vision would appear to be somewhat restricted. 

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