03-22-2007, 02:50 PM
Quote:It is correct that Severus banned female gladiators but the scholars assume that this ban was maybe carried out in Rome itself only but that they still appeared every now and than at provincial shows.
BTW the Satire of Juvenal was already quoted by me if you'd read the thread carefully :wink:
Ahh, my apologies...I just skimmed over it during school so I didn't see it.
"Those trees in whose dim shadow
The ghastly priest doth reign
The priest who slew the slayer,
And shall himself be slain."
--Thomas Babington Macaulay
[size=75:mubzwyps](Dustin)[/size]
The ghastly priest doth reign
The priest who slew the slayer,
And shall himself be slain."
--Thomas Babington Macaulay
[size=75:mubzwyps](Dustin)[/size]