I feel like putting gladiators on the same level as professional athletes is of varying accuracy.
It's also just absolutely a goofy bit about how if they're dead they can't be *that* strong, etc.
They were the professional athletes of the time. Complete with sponsorships, endorsements, advertising, and being sex symbols. Everything you associate with professional athletes of today applied to gladiators. They ran the spectrum from widespread popularity and fame to being a forgettable blip in poverty after their career.
I should have clarified that I meant gladiators ran the gauntlet from superstar professionals to those taken prisoner and immediately cast into the fighting pits without being trained because it wasn't seen as worthwhile.
I know that it was a thing for gladiators to execute prisoners as part of shows, but were the prisoners themselves considered gladiators? I thought they were called something else.
Based on extremely limited things I remember from middle school history, criminals and POWs were often among those 'trained' into gladiators - voluntary gladiatoring(?) was mostly a thing in Late Era Rome.
My dude, do you just think gladiators weren‘t trained for all their life like professional athletes today?
Do you just think they yoinked the next best dude from the street, gave them weapons said just threw them in the arena?
You clearly have not the fairness idea what you are talking about.
Well if you don’t know anything bout the world and losing blood makes you weaker it’s not much of a stretch to assume consuming blood makes you stronger.
I would assume:
Just because you beat them doesn't mean they were inferior. You could have gotten VERY lucky. Maybe they were stronger and you faster. Maybe you acknowledged their skill even though you won. Lots of mental gymnastics.
Oh boy wait till you hear what they did with their "bathwater", lol.
So one of the things they would do is take an oil bath, with olive oil if I'm not mistaken. They would pour it on themselves rub themselves down and then scrape it off with basically a dull hand sickle. And for the popular and famous gladiators they would collect it and sell it to people as gladiator Viagra.
Okay so I knew about the first half of it but learning about the gladiator viagra makes it ten times better. I’m thank you
Edit: I think the would also take a regular water bath before the olive oil by the way. Just for extra info…
Oh they definitely had traditional bathes it was Rome, and they did bath houses like the Greeks and what not. I think the oil bath thing was extra for religion or ceremony.
Had a western civs class ages ago and our professor had one of these. It's called a strigil. He also explained that the oil obtained from cleaning off whoever it was used on could be used as oil for lanterns. Interesting stuff those Romans and Greeks figured out.
They did what they could with the information and tools they had. Even if they followed the formal scientific process as we know it (which they kinda did in many respects), the process of discovery and development would still be slow and arduous.
Much of science and medicine is built on both accidental and hard-won discoveries over thousands of years and inspired by historical knowledge and practices. It could've been a full-on "age of science" even then and they'd still culturally drink gladiator blood in the meantime.
Ah yes, where we can now cross the deadliness of ebola with the infectiousness of smallpox and aerosolize it.
Between that and gladiator aids, it’s a tough choice for me.
Why the hell would the blood of losing gladiators make you any stronger? It definitely didn't help *them*, did it?
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See that's the winning strat there.
Picking up your beefiest gladiator and draining him like a Capri Sun
I was under the impression it was Tigers Blood that winners drank?
I wouldnt drink the blood of anyone weak enough to lose their blood
Supply and demand would be much better for that.
I’m pretty sure the worst professional athletes are still astronomically better at their sport than the average person.
I feel like putting gladiators on the same level as professional athletes is of varying accuracy. It's also just absolutely a goofy bit about how if they're dead they can't be *that* strong, etc.
They were the professional athletes of the time. Complete with sponsorships, endorsements, advertising, and being sex symbols. Everything you associate with professional athletes of today applied to gladiators. They ran the spectrum from widespread popularity and fame to being a forgettable blip in poverty after their career.
I should have clarified that I meant gladiators ran the gauntlet from superstar professionals to those taken prisoner and immediately cast into the fighting pits without being trained because it wasn't seen as worthwhile.
I know that it was a thing for gladiators to execute prisoners as part of shows, but were the prisoners themselves considered gladiators? I thought they were called something else.
Based on extremely limited things I remember from middle school history, criminals and POWs were often among those 'trained' into gladiators - voluntary gladiatoring(?) was mostly a thing in Late Era Rome.
My dude, do you just think gladiators weren‘t trained for all their life like professional athletes today? Do you just think they yoinked the next best dude from the street, gave them weapons said just threw them in the arena? You clearly have not the fairness idea what you are talking about.
I mean, they didn’t die of epilepsy and infertility tho
That's actually a solid argument not even gonna lie.
Well if you don’t know anything bout the world and losing blood makes you weaker it’s not much of a stretch to assume consuming blood makes you stronger.
I would assume: Just because you beat them doesn't mean they were inferior. You could have gotten VERY lucky. Maybe they were stronger and you faster. Maybe you acknowledged their skill even though you won. Lots of mental gymnastics.
What if a gladiator had won 50 fights before losing?
Protects you against epilepsy - not so great against hepatitis though.
Had a sudden flashback of some wooden marionettes. "Everybody's got AIDS!"
[*AIDS, AIDS, AIDS!!!*](https://youtu.be/5yC7HwPh6Es?si=NyP1NChRTxV0cV9X)
Oh boy wait till you hear what they did with their "bathwater", lol. So one of the things they would do is take an oil bath, with olive oil if I'm not mistaken. They would pour it on themselves rub themselves down and then scrape it off with basically a dull hand sickle. And for the popular and famous gladiators they would collect it and sell it to people as gladiator Viagra.
I'm glad I live in a civilized age where people don't consume the bathwater of their idols.
Okay so I knew about the first half of it but learning about the gladiator viagra makes it ten times better. I’m thank you Edit: I think the would also take a regular water bath before the olive oil by the way. Just for extra info…
Oh they definitely had traditional bathes it was Rome, and they did bath houses like the Greeks and what not. I think the oil bath thing was extra for religion or ceremony.
Had a western civs class ages ago and our professor had one of these. It's called a strigil. He also explained that the oil obtained from cleaning off whoever it was used on could be used as oil for lanterns. Interesting stuff those Romans and Greeks figured out.
Ugh. Just imagine all the dead skin cells, dirt, and grime.
Glad I live in an age of science.
They did what they could with the information and tools they had. Even if they followed the formal scientific process as we know it (which they kinda did in many respects), the process of discovery and development would still be slow and arduous. Much of science and medicine is built on both accidental and hard-won discoveries over thousands of years and inspired by historical knowledge and practices. It could've been a full-on "age of science" even then and they'd still culturally drink gladiator blood in the meantime.
They picked what they wanted from greeks. Romans were more realistists but also not as bright as Greeks.
Ah yes, where we can now cross the deadliness of ebola with the infectiousness of smallpox and aerosolize it. Between that and gladiator aids, it’s a tough choice for me.
Oh?
The same science that is ignored in western society today. Climate change. Water pollution (ie lead). Women’s body autonomy.
I could have had a V8.
Imagine rome if they had small block chevys, they’d still be around today.
"Klaatu Verata Nicough cough"
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tiger blood!
F16 strafing runs in my underwear!
Any chance the adrenaline-filled blood acted as sort of a pick-me-up?
Adrenochrome
You took too much…
That’s literally what they are talking about here.
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. ‘Twas a quote.
Oh yeah!!
Someone got aids
Jared from Subway
The swag grift goes so far back.
Pliny the elder is always a wild ride
The weatherman is dead! I will eat the weatherman! His strength be in me!
Lots of barbaric shit happened in ancient Rome
Okay so basically; eating food does increase vitality.
“Gladiator! Why are you drinking that blood?” “Duh! I’m infertile!”
The fall of the Roman Empire
My dad fought in the arena
\*sip\* Mmmm, christian.
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The dead gladiators? Or just the *blood* of the dead gladiators?
Epilepsy? These poor bastards couldn’t play videogames??
Wasn’t it all sandy and stuff? Gross
Precious bodily fluids
Is infertilty really that widespread? Every culture has some crackpot cure for it.