01-25-2007, 01:19 PM
A quick glance through 'Gladiators' by Michael Grant 1967 reveals a number of reliefs showing similar equipment and frontal poses executed with the same degree or even greater detail.
It is not unique to see a cornu portrayed either, as one exists in a Pompeii wall painting. Junkelmann also noted the similarity between a lot of military equipment and Gladiatorial. Other common aspects in Gladiator art include the draped tunic and groin guard, rectangular shields and same fighting stance adopted by the legionaries who we are told were also trained to fight against wooden stakes as the Gladiators did.
Graham.
It is not unique to see a cornu portrayed either, as one exists in a Pompeii wall painting. Junkelmann also noted the similarity between a lot of military equipment and Gladiatorial. Other common aspects in Gladiator art include the draped tunic and groin guard, rectangular shields and same fighting stance adopted by the legionaries who we are told were also trained to fight against wooden stakes as the Gladiators did.
Graham.
"Is all that we see or seem but a dream within a dream" Edgar Allan Poe.
"Every brush-stroke is torn from my body" The Rebel, Tony Hancock.
"..I sweated in that damn dirty armor....TWENTY YEARS!', Charlton Heston, The Warlord.
"Every brush-stroke is torn from my body" The Rebel, Tony Hancock.
"..I sweated in that damn dirty armor....TWENTY YEARS!', Charlton Heston, The Warlord.
