
Gladiators: everything you wanted to know
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The Most Famous Gladiator
The most famous gladiator is probably spartacus. He, of course, was the headman for a major rebellion in italy. But i did want to point out that spartacus is prob a lot more famous to us than he was to romans who didn't happen to be alive during the spartacan war. Spartacus becomes a reference point during the enlightenment and in successive generations ever since.
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