did the gladiators fight to the death

[john m roberts]

I have the Ephesos book. Unfortunately, I don't read German. I hope the exhibit travels to the UK or States so that there will be an English translation. If nothing else, it demonstrates that the munera were certainly lethal in the Greek East. Popular opinion tends to swing to extremes. From the incorrect idea that the loser was almost always killed, it swung to the equally incorrect idea that the loser was almost never killed. Killing was always an essential part of the gladiator fights.