![]() ![]() I often have students do historical reviews of the movie Gladiator, for instance, and read Monica Cyrino’s essay on how the movie actually reflected America in the year 2000. For me, I have always felt conflicted about engaging with the general hum of excitement that arises when I say we will be discussing the Roman amphitheater. ![]() The full stele shows the funerary #epigraph, which roughly translates, ‘To the spirits of the deceased, Sossia Iusta, freedwoman of Quintus Sossius Albus, murmillo (type of gladiator), (put up the monument) to her well-deserving patron.’ 2/ /OWFwFFWKRQ- Chapps FebruA funerary stele was dedicated by Sossia Iusta, a freedwoman manumitted from slavery, for a murmillo-type gladiator named Quintus Sossius Albus, 2nd century CE, now in the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Aquileia, Aquileia, Italy ( AE 2003, 680).įor those of us who teach standard Roman history surveys in our classrooms, we know that at least one or more days needs to be dedicated to the Colosseum and to gladiators.
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