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Greetings,
Do we have any ideas of the age of gladiators? Was there a minimum, or a maximum? Did they retire (assuming they lived that long) at a certain age?
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According to the 2002 survey of the at least 68 Gladiators found burried in the Ephesos Graveyard all exppect one older couple were males in the early till late adult range (19-35 years).
Gladiator Gravestones of the 1st century AD also seem to hint at an age of about 27 on average.
Though in the Republic and also later centurys the likelyhood of being killed if you lost seems to have been higher then in the first century.
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I am almost 99% certain that I remember reading that one of the Emperors brought in legislation that meant the there was a minimum age for auctori at about 20 for men and 25 for women, but I am struggling to find the reference at the moment, I will continue to hunt for you.
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Thankyou so much, after two PC crashes since I last read it somewhere I was worried I had seemed to have lost the details; you've saved me a life time of hunting about :-D