12-30-2011, 12:51 AM
On my website you could find a quite current literature list:
http://www.ludus-nemesis.eu/pdf/LuNem_Literatur_en.pdf
This includes also the books by Dario Battaglia and Eric Theyssier who oppose in some points more or less Marcus Junkelmann.
I personally don't like the books by Michael Grant and Alan Baker since I think they are too lurid.
As Artem already pointed out the death rates varied through the century. There could have been fights "sine missione" which means to the death of one of the combatants. But this would have been very costly for the editor (organizer of the games) because for every dead gladiator he had to pay the lanista (owner/manager of a gladiator school) an extra fee. I explained the kinds of endings and also this "financial problem" on my website:
http://www.ludus-nemesis.eu/en/origines_4_en.html
http://www.ludus-nemesis.eu/en/origines_5_en.html
http://www.ludus-nemesis.eu/pdf/LuNem_Literatur_en.pdf
This includes also the books by Dario Battaglia and Eric Theyssier who oppose in some points more or less Marcus Junkelmann.
I personally don't like the books by Michael Grant and Alan Baker since I think they are too lurid.
As Artem already pointed out the death rates varied through the century. There could have been fights "sine missione" which means to the death of one of the combatants. But this would have been very costly for the editor (organizer of the games) because for every dead gladiator he had to pay the lanista (owner/manager of a gladiator school) an extra fee. I explained the kinds of endings and also this "financial problem" on my website:
http://www.ludus-nemesis.eu/en/origines_4_en.html
http://www.ludus-nemesis.eu/en/origines_5_en.html
