07-22-2014, 01:58 PM
Thank you for your comments, Medusa. Unfortunately, Salimbeti and d´Amato´s work doesn´t include any picture.
Actually I wasn´t thinking of standard "munera", but those extravaganzas that turned executions into a mythological or “historical” enactment. The "amazon" would be a condemned woman compelled to fight (with a dull weapon and no training) against a real gladiator.
Another explanation for the mosaics could be that who commissioned them had a fetish for gladiators. Nonetheless, the quotation in my first post suggests a fad in that part of the empire. Therefore, it doesn´t sound implausible to me that the "editores" presented such a display from time to time.
Actually I wasn´t thinking of standard "munera", but those extravaganzas that turned executions into a mythological or “historical” enactment. The "amazon" would be a condemned woman compelled to fight (with a dull weapon and no training) against a real gladiator.
Another explanation for the mosaics could be that who commissioned them had a fetish for gladiators. Nonetheless, the quotation in my first post suggests a fad in that part of the empire. Therefore, it doesn´t sound implausible to me that the "editores" presented such a display from time to time.
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