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I sincerely hope this channel never goes away. The history and linguistical lessons are always awesome

It would be cool to hear about the battle re-enactments, land and sea, that were performed.

Flamma received a rudius 4 times, but refused freedom each time and chose to carry on fighting as a gladiator. He also “fought to a draw 9 times and won reprieve 4 times” according to his gravestone. He fought as a secutor gladiator during his lifetime

Using the Attic standard, a single talent was 6,000 denarii or 240 Aurei. Each aureus weighed about 8 grams of gold (I'm using the 1st century BC as an example) so 240 x 8 = 1,920 grams or just over 61.73 ounces (modern troy oz). Current price of gold is 1,984 x 61.73 = 122,472.32. Now multiply that x 30 you get 3,674,169.60 for a gladiatorial bout.

Without the awesome beauty, knowledge, wisdom and greatness of the Metatron to inspire me on a daily basis, I’d be dead in a ditch right now!!!! Keep up the awesome work Metratron!!!

I love how some of them even had their own union and if one of them had a family and he or she was killed in the arena all the other gladiators would pool their money together for that persons family.

Could you do a review on Gladiator(2000)? It Is my favourite movie of all time, but don't let that stop you tearing into it If thats what you want. I would just like to hear what you have to say about it :) Cheers from Norway

I'd love more videos on the topic. Equipment especially, as usually, the more specialised a piece of kit is, the more interesting it gets. And gladiatorial weapons and armour look VERY specialised.

That judgmental camera zoom on the emperor who liked watching female gladiators had me balling. Fantastic

Great video! I personally had heard all these things before (except S. Severus banning gladiatrix) but it doesnt get old for me and many people probably never heard about it. I would definitely like to hear more on the topic!

Been waiting for your detailed take on Gladiators! ❤

Thanks Metatron. I love knowing these fun facts about historical warriors and you always present it in an entertaining way. Te deseo un buen día

Here's something that will blow your mind. Benito Mussolini's Grand daughter (Alessandra) released a J-pop album in 1982 called Amore. Also her Aunt by Marriage was Sophia Lauren.

5:22 Non stop, no breaks! No sleeping at night? No food for 9 day. Ok. No drink? Not possible! A huge question as to how you define a break, but no doubt that the man performed an outstanding task!

I loved the movie, "Gladiator" with Russell Crowe!!... Do you remember the movie from the 1960s, "Demitrius and the Gladiators"? I loved that one too!

Gladiators-the first super professional athletes of the Ancient World

One question I wanted to know: was the average gladiator much more skilled in combat than the average Roman soldier, as is often portrayed and implied in stories like Spartacus?

At last! A real Metatron video!!

I'm enjoying the information about Gladiators, as usual it's well researched facts presented in an interesting way. So, I would certainly enjoy learning more! God bless

More content on gladiators pls!!! Always been fascinated on the subject. I even made a huge school project on gladiators which I later followed up on with one on The Roman Empire... got top grades for both ;-) ...

This will be a great video, I better get comfortable. Lots of myths and facts about gladiators, let's sort it out. And I get to see if my own knowledge about this topic is correct. I do know that gladiators were professional athletes and could become quite wealthy. And some men chose to join for a better life than they had. Plus, I love the Gladiator movie. "Are you not entertained." Watching from NZ🇳🇿 enjoy your channel, just recently found it. (Edit, Im quite happy with my knowledge, id say 80% pass rate😂).

Only good things can come from more videos about Gladiators in my opinion 😁

Your pronunciation is exquisite! Thank you for offering us the opportunity to be enriched by such a cavalcade of knowledge, narrated in such an interesting and smart way. Thank you so much!

"Do you like movies about gladiators?" ~ "Airplane"

I think you might have mixed up Caligula and Commodus? Unless I'm forgetting Caligula having a stint as a gladiator (it wouldn't surprise me if he also did that), but when I think of gladiators and emperors my first instinct is Commodus.

Please make a series about ordinary life in ancient Rome: architecture, crafts, education, agriculture, legal system (The Roman Law is certainly the most valuable Roman legacy), also about shipbuilding, trade...All these things can be found in literature and in internet, still, it would be so good to hear from you all this information. Enough material for months and years of good content. Thank you Raphael.

Maybe they fed them such high amounts of carbs to fatten them up for padding, also it's probably much cheaper

Would definitelly want to hear more. Practices of ancient cultures are fascinating.

All videos you do are important to me. Doesn't matter the context. I always learn something when I come to your classroom. Appreciate all you do, and more gladiators would be epic.

That one emperor preferring female gladiators was just an extreme mud wrestling pioneer. Love it.

Yes please blow my mind

More gladiator videos are always entertaining

MOAR GALDIATOR PLEASE!!

Thank You very much for this video! 😊

Your "Fact Series" is really amazing. Entertaining and informative at the same time. Awesome work Metatron, you're a great researcher and presenter.

Thank you Raffaello. Interesting and instructive as usual. If possible, would you tell us about the different types of gladiators, their helmets, weapons... Thanks again!

The Beginning of Gladiator Combat: Celebrate one life by ending another

As a life long wrestling fan I would love to see any correlation between modern wrestling and its possible origins (as a commercial entertainment product) in the gladiatorial arenas... E complimentissimi per tutti i video, ottimo lavoro : )

For those of y’all asking him for more Gladiator content or specifics, check his videos. Years ago he has tons of them on this topic, that from what I have seen in the comments, there is a video for most every question people have about gladiators. Just gotta look at his old vids.

Most importantly, gladiators were actually people, not drawings on walls of Pompeii, contrary to what most people believe.

Hell yes! Part 2 for sure! This was a blast to listen to. Loving your videos more and more. History was always my favorite subject in school; thanks for reawakening that fascination for me. Much love brother

Niiice video Metatron!! Gladiatorial combat was initially what got me into fencing, reenactment and fitness- so huge fanboy here! Would love to see more gladiator videos from you!

Really interesting content. It would be cool to see a video on gladiator training, the lanistia & ludus. What their lives were like if a captured slave, a Roman volunteer or a criminal.

Awesome video! Definitely would love to see another one about facts about gladiators! This was super cool. :)

Amazing video as always! Thank you for making such high quality, educational and entertaining content. Having said that, how dare you ask if we want more? XD Yes. One million per cent. Give us all the facts. Kidding, whatever you post is simply amazing. Keep up the great work. ^-^

So glad you did another more recent gladiator video ! Would love to see a video on the weapons and armor

I was under the empression that it was Commodus who fought as a gladiator, didn’t know “Little Boots” was up to it too, I thought he just upped the cruelty, not taking part.

AT 16:51 the translation is "Battle of the Amazons" how cool is that!!!

Was the entrance for the gladiatorial tournaments pay to enter or just find a seat?

"Win the crowd." Also shows how little we have changed. Even if our favorite sports star has won a championship in years, we will still cheer for them.

This was informative thanks

You seem to be one of the few mentally sane persons in social media. I love your channel.

Yes! More Gladiator stuff!

I remember reading that the Etruscans brought gladiatorial-style combat with them during the reign of the kings. That's right, it is most likely the kings were mostly Etruscans.

Interesting fact about Gladiators: They are living a revival today in the form of KZfaq-boxing-fights. Not sure how to feel about it though.

I didn’t no alot of this information about gladiators!! Top quality content as usual thanks! ❤👍

Thanks from Belarus for your content, especially thanks for good clear pronounciation which understooded for non-native english language people.

this was fun to watch, thanks!

A Roman Legionnaire walks into a bar, holds up two fingers and says "Five beers, please"

GOD I would love to go back in time just for a brief moment to go see some famous gladiator fights

I once read somewhere that the gladiators' high-carb diet was intentionally crafted to give them a layer of subcutaneous fat that could be cut and appear to bleed a lot during a match, but actually not cause death via the laceration of a major vein or artery.

"Are you not entertained"? I couldn't resist ☺

For the modern version of Caligula fighting in the arena we will have Elon musk VS Mark Zuckerberg in mma doing the spinning kicks you wanted 10:10

Id be really interested if you made a video talking about the ethics of museums such as The British Museum.

Never knew I needed to know about Gladiators. Thankyou, very interesting.

Yes! More gladiator content!!

that stock image was hilarious, more geek gladiators please!

I love the fact that he has the N64 gauntlet game. You can see it in the upper left hand corner of the screen just two down from the Zelda game on his shelf.

Metatron,if i don't remember wrong you trained Kyokushin. One thing i am interested is how unarmed martial arts flow into armed combat. Have you ever considered talking about this?

10:00 Boxing champion Manny Pacquiao was a Philippines senator and ran for president last cycle.

4:37 now I'm imagining some Roman doctor testing Gladiators for doping.

As always, both entertaing and instructive. Thank you.

Is the Latin which Julius Caesar used to write about his campaigns the same Latin that he would have spoken everyday to his family members and military personnel? Would Caesar have been able to go to a public market and understand the conversations he heard? At that time in Rome what was the common language which most people would have been expected to to know?

Yay new Metatron!

Greetings noble one, from Costa Rica. I’ve been a suscribir since a couple of years already and your ideas, plus your approaching to science is what I have been waiting for years. You’re amazing, thank goodness people like you are still trying to overcome ignorance. There is a bunch of friends that are following you in Costa Rica. My only small petition is would you be so gladly debunk the ancient astronauts theory? Please!

I love your videos and contents about history! thanks for all the news!

Enjoyed your video on Gladiator facts. I have heard of dwarfs being matched with old women. Some of the names of gladiators have come down to us through time, one gladiator's name stands out ''Yellow Legs" who must have been very popular.

Make as many of these as possible buddy. Obviously the weapons and armour ones are going to be the big viewers

I wonder what your thoughts are on the Spartacus TV show in terms of accuracy .

That was great, more gladiator stuff please ;)

"ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED?!.....IS THIS NOT WHY YOU'RE HERE?!"

I thoroughly enjoyed this video. Would love to see more

More please, the circuses in general would be good.

Metatron, you’re my hero!!!

loved the video. I would like to know more about the different types of gladiators and they weapons and armor.

Yes. I’m interested In all off it. I’d like as much information about Gladiators as you can give. Really enjoy your content.

Bread and circuses, still keeping people distracted even today.

Meta this kinda content is why im subscribed

This was cool! Please continue!

I find it intersting that violence as entertainment has such a long history, In The Iliad, Homer relates how blood-games were held after Patroklos was slayed by Hector. While nobody got killed, the event was an offering of blood to facilitate the transition of Patroklos's spirit to the world of the dead. Researchers believe Homer was describing a common ceremony in the funeral of important individuals. The Chinese also had ancient sword games 剑术 jiànshù starting around 800BC. The Egyptians in antiquity jousted from small boats knocking people into crocodile filled waters. The ancient Mayans/Mesoamericans starting around 1500BC had "Ollamaliztli" a bloody ball game where in the end somebody usually died (the exact rules of the sport aren't known and changed). Today we still view violence as entertaining, boxing and mixed martial arts fighters aren't much different than the gladiators minus the Gladius.

Who wouldn't want to go and watch gladiators fight..probably a great day out ..

Yes more bids on this topic please

Another great video. Do you have any on ancient Greek games, or ancient Olympics? Would you consider doing one? Looking forward to your next video.

I would love more vidoes on this sort of thing!

Good show Metatron, always entertaining and informative. Could I add that the gladiator fighting was majorly concerned with the serious business of gambling? This made the performers akin to racing horses today. The thing was to put on a good show. So it was also like Rock and Roll Wrestling. The gladiators would play to the crowd, beat their chests, ham it up, get them going. And they were fat. Yes they were. Barley bellies. So they could get cut, bleed etc. I'm not saying it was fake fighting but putting on a show for the mob was an acknowledged part so allowances for it were made. It also guaranteed your survival if you lost.

Excellent video as always. @Metatron we now know, as you mentioned, that Gladiator diets were high in barley,legumes etc , but this revelation has given rise to the idea that as a result of this carb rich diet, Gladiators were almost certainly "fat" , with some saying they were ideally overweight so as to have an extra layer of protection against weapons and strikes. I have a hard time believing this to be the reality, and an even harder time believing your average modern combat athlete surpasses the physical fitness and conditioning of the classical Gladiator. Can you weigh in on this, please and thank you? Appreciate all that you do .

At first I was going to say don’t you mean commodus fought in the arena ? But then I looked it up and yep , Caligula did indeed too ! Others too ! That’s why I love these videos so much , I always learn something new and I know metatron actually takes personal accountability and would admit when he’s wrong .

Would love a video going through the most famous gladiators/gladiatrix and their weapons/fight style of chioice, how long they lived and what their most notable fights were etc. But i understand a video on said weapons and fight styles would be more appropriate first for context 🙏

It’s certainly curious that you failed to mention the fact that almost all gladiators were women of color and/or LGBTQ+ and were the most well-respected warriors of their time. Often serving as advisors to the Roman army, they could truly be said to have been the secret to the strength and effectiveness of the Romans.