Gladiator movie

When a Roman general is betrayed and his family murdered by a corrupt prince, he comes to Rome as a gladiator to seek revenge.

("With a Turned Thumb"), an 1872 painting by Jean-Léon Gérôme, is a well known history painters researched conception of a gladiatorial combat.]]Gladiators (Latin: gladiat?r?s, "swordsmen" or "one who uses a sword," from gladius, "sword") were professional fighters in ancient Rome who fought against each other, wild animals, and condemned criminals, sometimes to the death, for the entertainment of spectators. These fights took place in arenas in many cities from the Roman Republic period through the Roman Empire.The word comes from gladius, the Latin word for a short sword used by legionaries and some gladiators.OriginsThe origin of the gladiatorial games is not known for certain. There are two theories: that the Romans adopted gladiatorial fights from the Etruscans, and that the games came from Campania and Lucania. The evidence for the theory of Etruscan origin is a passage by the Greek writer Nicolas of Damascus in the second half of the first century BC describing the origins as Etruscan, an account by Isiodorus of Seville during the 600s relating the Latin word for gladiator manager, lanista, to the Etruscan word for executioner, and also likeness of the Roman god of hell, Charon, who accompanied the executed bodies as they exited the arena, to the Etruscan god of death, also named Charon.

The theory that the games developed from a Campanian and Lucanian tradition is supported by frescoes dating to the fourth century BC depicting funeral games in which pair of gladiators fought to the death to commemorate the death of an important individual. However, the Campanians could also have adapted this tradition from the Greeks who could have introduced funeral games with human sacrifices to the area in the eight century BC. Regardless of the origin, the Romans adopted the tradition of funeral games to display important peoples status and power.The first recorded gladiatorial combats took place in Rome in 264 BC, at the start of the First Punic War against Carthage. Decimus Iunius Brutus Scaeva staged it in honour of his dead father Brutus Pera. It was held between three pairs of slaves, and held in the Forum Boarium. The ceremony was called a munus or ?duty paid to a dead ancestor by his descendants, with the intention of keeping alive his memory? (Baker, Gladiator 10).

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Gladiator Cast

• Connie Nielsen
• David Hemmings
• David Schofield
• Derek Jacobi
• Djimon Hounsou
• Joaquin Phoenix
• John Shrapnel
• Oliver Reed
• Ralf Moeller
• Richard Harris
• Spencer Treat Clark
• Sven-Ole Thorsen
• Tomas Arana
• Tommy Flanagan