Quote:Many, if not most, gladiator fights were not fought to the death

 

That's news to me, I know many of them where not fought against other humans. For example Romans used Lions and Bears ect... but I've always read historically it was a sport to mock death right up to and including death.

 

The purpose was for the Romans to appease the populations lust to see death, they craved it, some argue because of the war state Rome was built upon.

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