Gladiator Pictures
The following are selected pictures of actual Roman artwork depicting gladiators from the VROMA archive. Using information obtained from the other gladiator sites click on the link and see if you can identify the types of gladiators or equipment in the pictures. You may wish to print out this sheet.
1.
http://www.vroma.org/images/mcmanus_images/nenning2.jpg
Try to identify the types of gladiators in this picture.
2.
http://www.vroma.org/images/mcmanus_images/nenning7.jpg
What type of gladiators do these seem to be?
3.
http://www.vroma.org/images/mcmanus_images/retiarius.jpg
Using what you know, explain how one can know that there is a retiarius in this picture.
4.
http://www.vroma.org/images/mcmanus_images/nenning5.jpg
What type of gladiator is featured in this picture? What proof can you find to support your claim?
5.
http://www.vroma.org/images/mcmanus_images/gladiatorhelmet.jpg
Which kind of gladiator would wear a helmet like this?
6.
http://www.vroma.org/images/mcmanus_images/bestiarii.jpg
Give the Latin name for the event is depicted in this picture?
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