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Page numbers in italics refer to illustrations and captions
Achilles 29
Achillia 115, 116
Acropolis 45
Actium 104
Adriana 46
Advolans 75
aedile 34, 39
Aemilius Paulus 30
Aemilius Lepidus 30
Africa 10, 47, 48–50, 82, 152
Ajax 75
Alexander 99
Alexander (retiarius) 144
Alkibiades 182
Alps 33, 47
Alyptus 164
Amazonia 115, 116
Ammianus Marcellinus 100; History 58
Amphitheatrum
Flavium see Flavian
Amphitheatre
andabata 80, 161
Antioch 30
Antiochus Epiphanes 30
Antoninus Pius (emperor) 110
Antonius Lucius 103
Antony, Mark 103, 104
Apelles 46
apeluthe see missio
Appian 103;
Civil Wars 134
Appian Way 35, 106
Appius Claudius 29
Apuleius, The Golden Ass 157
Aquillius 11
arm-guard 79
Armilustrium 120
Arminius 39
Artemis 42
Artemisia 42, 46
Asia Minor 30, 41, 42, 56, 64, 75, 103, 115, 116, 152
Asicius Lucius 63
Asiaticus (gladiator name) 18, 75
Asiaticus (primus palus)178
Asklepiades 64
Assyria 126
Astanax (secutor) 84
Astivus 169
Athenaeus, Deipnosophists
(The Dinner of the Wise) 23, 24, 26, 28, 30
Athens 45
Atilius 36
Atticus Pomponius 16, 108
Attilius, Marcus 76
auctoratus 12, 15, 20, 21, 40, 58, 66, 76, 121
Audax (secutor) 142
Augustine, Confessions 164
Augustus (emperor) 16,35–37, 39, 103, 115, 172
Aurelia (wife of Glauco) 177
Aurelius, Marcus (emperor) 7, 10, 46, 69, 110, 110, 120;
Meditations 6, 173
Aventine Hill 156
Babylon 126
Bacchus 49, 49
balteus (belt) 44, 90
beast-fighter see venator
beast-hunt see venatio
Beryllus 52, 180
Bethlehem 104
Blaesus (proconsul of Pannonia) 105
Boudicca 52, 53
Britannia (Britain) 10, 52, 54, 56, 58, 112
Brundisium 33, 103
Brutus, Marcus 106
Brutus, Decimus Iunius 29
Brutus Britannicus Thrax 58
Brysa Hill 47
bustuaria 39
Caelestis see Tanit
Caelian Hill 127, 182
Caere 25
Caerleon 56
Caesar, Julius 15, 16, 34, 35, 39, 103, 105, 106
Caligula (emperor) 22, 22, 106, 148, 163, 172
Calpurnius Crassus 163
Calpurnius Flaccus 22
Calpurnius Siculus, Eclogues 155
Campania 16, 25, 26, 28
Campus Martius 158,179
Canopus 108
Capitoline Hill 149
Capua 25, 26, 32, 59
Caracalla, baths of 112
cardiophylax 77
Carthage 15, 47, 48–53
Cassius Longinus 134
Cassius Dio, History 11, 114, 148, 150, 158, 163
Cato, Caius 105
Cato the Younger 105
Cayster (river) 41
Celadus 111
cena libera 43, 145
Cerberus 93, 99
Charon (the ferryman) 163
Charun Psychopompus 25, 25, 141, 163, 173
chaser see secutor
Chester 56
Chios 41
Christians 47, 49, 51, 145, 154, 183
Chrysis 109
Cicero, Marcus Tullius 15, 35, 103, 105, 106, 108;
On Standing for Consul 105;
On the Orator 71;
Pro Milone 165;
Tusculan Disputations 9, 91, 166
Circus Maximus 27, 29, 47, 118, 151
Claudius (emperor) 104, 110, 151, 179
Claudius, Appius 106
Clodius, Publius 35, 106
Colchester 55
collegia 172; see also familia
Colonia Nemausus (Nimes) 17, 112
Colosseum (Coliseum) 16, 37, 70, 126, 127, 129, 133, 149, 182, 183
Commodus (emperor) 6, 7, 13, 46, 110, 110, 127
Coressus, Mount 41
Cornelius Nepos, Lives 13
Crassus, Marcus
Licinius 33, 108
Cremona 104
Crescens 111
Croesus of Lydia 43
crucifixion 9, 22
Curtius Rufus 110
Cygnus 75
Cyprian, Letters to Donatus 67
Cyzicus 64, 103
Dacia 39
Dacian wars 38, 183
damnati 66, 71
damnatio ad gladium 9, 65, 66;
ad ludos 10, 66;
ad bestias 8, 9, 153
Danoas 64
Danube (river) 133
Decimus Brutus 39, 103, 106
Demochares of Plataea 117
Demonax 26
Diana 42, 43, 43
Dickens, Charles, Pictures from Italy 129
dimachaerus 80
Dio Chrysostom 41
Diocletian, Arch of 10
Dis Pater 25
doctor 60, 132
Domitian (emperor) 107, 116, 119, 160
Drusus 172
Ducenius, Marcus Quintus 76
Durnovaria 56
editor 14, 43, 50, 80, 156, 181
Egypt 104, 109
El Djem, Tunisia 8
Eorta 64
Ephasia 46
Ephesus 30, 43, 40–46
Epictetus, Discourses 41, 69;
Handbook 40, 57, 74, 101, 117, 132
Eppia 108, 113
eques 80, 80, 83, 100, 134
Esquiline Hill 126, 127
essedarius 52, 80, 134, 179
Etna, Mount 31
euhoplo 62
familia gladiatoria 57, 122, 125, 132, 181;
Neronia 76;
Varronis 73
fasces 148
Faustina, Annia Galeria 110, 110
Felix 75
Fidenae 36
flagellum 62
Flamma 75
Flavian Amphitheatre 37, 37, 40, 70, 104, 126, 128, 126–129, 133, 141, 172; see also Colosseum
Flavia Diogenes 175
Floralia 117
Florus 75
Fortuna 176, 176, 177
Fortunensis 174
Forum Boarium 29
Frangipane family 183
Fulvius, Marcus 29
Gaesus (murmillo) 182
Galen 45, 46, 67, 69, 72, 89
galerus 79, 99
Galli, Gallic 55, 133
Gate of the Dead see Porta Libertinensis
Gaul 33, 76, 112
Germania (Germany) 10, 77, 150
Glauco of Mutina 177
Glyco 152
Golden House, the 127
Gracchus (failed retiarius) 22
Gracchus, Tiberius 32
Gracchus, Caius 31
Greece 26, 42, 117
gregarius 21, 34, 66, 123, 178
griffin 79, 81, 138
Grosser, Svenja 99
habet 165, 172
Hadrian (emperor) 11, 41, 114
Halicarnassus 45, 45, 56, 115, 116
Hannibal 23, 47
harenarii 163
Hector 75
Helios (sun god) 127
Hercules 6, 73
Hermes (gladiator) 75
Hermes Psychopompus 75, 163
Hermippus 26
Hilarus 75, 76
Historia Augusta 11;
Life of Commodus 12;
Life of Hadrian 11;
Life of Marcus Aurelius 110
Homer 28
hoplite 79, 138
hoplomachus 79, 79, 125, 170
hordearii (barley-men) 68
Hostilianus 115
Hyacinth 109
Icarus 130
infamis 13, 14, 17, 21, 120, 180
infamia 180
Italy 12, 23, 31–33, 39, 40, 47, 75, 95, 103, 152, 153
iugula 165
Jesus (gladiator) 63, 100
Judaea 104
Julia Procula 182
Jupiter (king of the gods) 43, 161
Juvenal 114; Satires 15, 62, 109, 113, 119
Kalendio (retiarius) 84
King Herod 104
lanista 11, 15, 18–21, 32, 57, 58, 59, 60, 62, 62, 72, 74, 76, 109, 114, 116, 118, 120–123, 132, 176, 179, 181
laquearius 80
Laurica 174
Lentulus Batiatus 32, 59
Lepidus 103
libellus munerarius 160
libertinarii 163
libertus 123
lictor 148, 148, 149
Livy 27, 29
Londinium (Llyn Din,
London) 52, 53, 56
Lucius Pompeius 76
Lucius Pompeius of Vienne 112
ludi romani 120
ludi scaenici 117
Ludus Dacius 39, 133
Ludus Gallicus 133
Ludus Juliani 66
Ludus Magnus 70, 133, 134
Ludus Matutinus 133
Ludus Nemesis 99
Lydia 112
Macedonia 30
magister 60, 70, 72
Magnesian Gate 45
manica 44, 77, 142
manicarius 60
Mansuetus 75
Marcus Antonius Niger the Thracian 175
Marcus Maesonius 125
Marius, Caius 31
Mars (god of war) 37
Martial, Epigrams 75;
On the Spectacles 37, 126, 155, 158, 171
Martianus 108
Maternus 83
Maximus 75
Maximus (essedarius) 66
Meander (river) 45, 46
medicus 59, 60, 177
Medusa (provocatorix) 99, 140
Memnon (secutor) 55
Memphis 126
Mercury 51; see also
Hermes
Psychopompus
Messalina (empress) 110
Meta Sudans (fountain) 127, 128
Milan 174
Milo, Annius 35, 106
Misenum 130, 133
missio 65, 116, 125, 165, 173
missio ignominiosa 14
Mithridates 42
Modena 103
Modestinus, Digest of Justinian 10
munerarius 9, 19, 22, 160, 163
munera assiforana 118, 122
munus 9, 29, 30, 42, 73, 134
murmillo 43, 44, 55, 63, 78, 78, 79, 97, 100, 125, 133, 135, 138, 140, 142, 161, 162, 167, 170
Mutina 103
nanus 14
Naples 111
Narcissus 75
Nemesis 79, 81, 93, 176, 177, 179
Nero (emperor) 102, 104, 106, 106, 114, 119, 127
Neronian school 125
Nerva (emperor) 163
net-fighter see retiarius
Nikephorus 75
Nile (river) 108
Nimes see Colonia
Nemausus
Nola 95
Nomas 52
Nuceria 161
Nymphidius 108
Octavian see Augustus
Olympia 46
Olympias 174
Oppian Hill 133
Optata 112
Ostia 115
Otho (emperor) 104
Ovid 112; Art of Love 36
paegniarii 114
Paestum 25
Palatine Hill 132
palus 71, 113
Pandos 44
Panormus 41
Pantheon 179
Parius (essedarius) 172
parma equestris 80
parmularii 78, 78
Parthenius 107
Parthia 10
Pasiphae 158
Patroclus 29
Paul, Saint 42;
Corinthians 40, 145
Pergamum 45, 46
Perpetua, Saint 50, 51
Persia 100
Perusia 39, 103
Petronius, Satyricon 10, 15, 19, 21, 109, 117, 152
Pharos 108
philoploi 42
Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of Tyana 45
Pion, Mount 41, 44
Pliny the Elder 39, 155;
Natural History 68, 156
Plutarch 33, 102;
Life of Caius Gracchus 31;
Life of Crassus 33, 59;
Life of Galba 108;
Moralia 44, 146
Pollentia 14
pollice verso 165
pompa 146–147, 147, 148, 149
Pompeii 20, 32, 48, 63, 73, 88, 111, 125, 147, 161, 166
Porta Libertinensis 151, 163, 167
Porta Sanavivaria 151
practum est 172
praecipuum mercedis 121
primus palus 63, 64, 66, 174
Priscus 162, 167, 168–71
probatio armorum 163
procuratores familiae ludi 15, 36, 59, 132
provocator 55, 77, 77, 78, 89, 91–94, 138
provocatorix 99
psilus 62
Puetoli 140
pulvinar 149
Punic War, Second 30
quaestus causa 12
Quintilian, Declamations 13, 168
Quintus Voltedius Optatus 52
Ravenna 39
retiarius 22, 44, 54, 55, 62,78, 78, 79, 79, 80, 87, 92, 94, 96, 96–100, 111, 112, 135, 143, 162, 162, 163
Revocatus 50
Rome 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 13, 16, 22, 24–32, 34, 35, 37, 39, 40–43, 45, 47, 59, 60, 69, 79, 90, 102–106, 115, 117, 119, 120, 122, 126–28, 148, 149, 151, 152, 158, 169, 175, 179–83
rudis 177, 179
Rufus (hoplomachus) 138–39
Rutilius, Marcus 76
Rutilius Rufus 31
Sabinus 75
sacer 22
sacerdos provinciae Africae 51
sacramentum gladiatorum 21
Salvian, The Government of God 154
Samnite 25, 25, 26, 28, 44, 55, 73, 76, 79
Samos 41
Saniarum 134, 173
Sassanian 100
Satornius of Smyrna the Thracian 175
Saturnalia 118
Saturnilos 57
Saturus 50
Scipio Africanus 30
scissor 44
Scribonius Curio 35
scutarii 77
secunda rudis 162
secundus palus 64
secutor 54, 55, 62, 78, 78, 79, 96, 96–100, 135, 143, 162, 163, 174
Seleucids 30
Seneca 66, 67;
Controversies 65;
Letters 8, 23, 66, 67, 136, 159–60;
On Anger 132;
On Providence 55
Septimius Severus 56
Sergius 76
Sergius (lover of Eppia) 109
Servilius 76
Servius 76
Sicily 31
Silk Road 41
Silurus 153
Sixtus V (Pope) 183
Spain 30, 47
sparsiones 73
Spartacus 33, 31–33, 58, 71, 74, 101
Speculator (gladiator) 125
Spiculus 106
Spoliarum 134
sportulae 121, 150
Strabo, Geography 153
Styx (river) 163
Suetonius 116, 172;
Life of Augustus 158;
Life of Caligula 163;
Life of Claudius 156, 179;
Life of Domitian 161;
Life of Nero 127;
Life of Tiberius 37;
Life of Vitellius 18
summa rudis 143, 162, 162, 170
Summum Choragium 134
synkelarioi 42
Syria 30
Tacitus 102, 110;
Histories 12;
Annals 37, 53
Tanit 48, 49
Tarracina 102
Telegenii 48, 49, 49
Telephus 73
Tertullian, Apologia 51, 68;
On the Spectacles 147
Teutoberg massacre 39
Thames (river) 38, 53
Thracia 74
Thracian 19, 33, 43, 44, 55, 64, 72, 73, 78, 79, 81, 111, 125, 133, 138, 144, 161, 162
Thumelicus 39
Thysdrus 48
Tiber (river) 29, 103
Tiberius (emperor) 14, 14, 115, 172
Tigris (gladiator) 125
Tigris (river) 38
tintinnabulum 111
tiro 19, 21, 44, 46, 57, 61, 66, 72–74, 76, 76, 132, 150, 159, 162, 164, 174
Titus (emperor) 22, 37, 172
Titus, Arch of 149
Titus Flamininus 30
Trajan (emperor) 38, 133, 183
tribunalia 53
Urbicus 174, 174
Ursus arctos 53
Valens 76
Valentinus (retiarius) 55
Valerius 76
Valerius Maximus 29
Vegetius, Military Matters 71
Veiento 109
vela (awning) 73, 125, 130, 159
venatio 73, 151, 152, 156
venator 38, 48–50, 49, 52, 82, 121, 133, 145, 152
Verus, Lucius 46
Verus 162, 171, 182
Vespasian (emperor) 37, 40, 104, 104, 127
Vestal Virgins 150
vestarius 61
veteran 42, 63, 65, 66, 97,162, 168, 175, 179, 181, 182
Via Labicana 70
Victor 75
virtus causa 13
Vitellius (emperor) 18
Vitruvius, On Architecture 35
vomitoria 160