Gladiators

The first gladiator battle that was ever recorded was in 358 B.C. This was when a king said he wanted some kind of battles performed at his funeral. So, 307 people were captured, and forced to fight each other at the king’s funeral. All 307 captives eventually died, as a result of a free-for-all held during the battles. Another famous battle was in 264 B.C. King Marcus Brutus solemnly celebrated his funeral with many gladiatorial battles. Many events were held at this funeral to honor King Brutus, and many deaths throughout the events occurred too. Thus, the basic result of having any type of gladiatorial battles at any funeral results in basically everyone getting killed one way or another. This is sad, because all the gladiators died just because they were forced to battle at a funeral, and they would never see the real future in front of them. So at the end, this was part of the cause of the fall and end of the gladiatorial games, and all gladiator fights throughout the Roman Empire.

The Gladiatorial games held in Rome ended not because of the actual death of all the participants, but in their symbolic death as defeated athletes, because according to them, they were not succeeding Roman Gladiators during their combat. Because of this thought, many gladiators decided to quit from their job, and live a normal life. Thus, eventually all the gladiatorial events ended throughout the Ancient Roman period, and marked the end of Gladiators.