02-20-2007, 04:50 AM
Quote:BTW the men are venatores (the beast hunters) while a bestiarius would be just someone who handles the beast, drives them into the arena etc. Unfortunately neither Coleman nor Bomgardner made any reference to the armor of the venatores (but there was no time to include that also in any of their talks).
But gladiators who fought beasts were also called bestiarii, at least I think it says so in the Satyricon.
