05-11-2007, 09:19 PM
Hello Duncan
Junkelmann's book Das Spiel Mit Dem Tod (2000) shows both original sources such as reliefs, plus reconstructions. He calls the gladiators who fought in this fashion Pontarii.
There has been another earlier documentary on the Ephesus gladiator bones. Nice that the latest documentary said that the depictions of mass gladiator fights as shown by Hollywood were inaccurate, illustrated by a scene not from a Hollywood epic but a previous BBC documentary! :wink:
Graham.
Junkelmann's book Das Spiel Mit Dem Tod (2000) shows both original sources such as reliefs, plus reconstructions. He calls the gladiators who fought in this fashion Pontarii.
There has been another earlier documentary on the Ephesus gladiator bones. Nice that the latest documentary said that the depictions of mass gladiator fights as shown by Hollywood were inaccurate, illustrated by a scene not from a Hollywood epic but a previous BBC documentary! :wink:
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.
