Women Gladiators????

[Anonymous]

So, I've read a couple of books that touched on this theme..... and I got conflicting ideas. One says that women gladiators were never matched up with anything else, except other women. The other book says, that in trying to out-do other spectacles they have as an example a woman fighting a dwarf. What's the real deal with these figures of history that we don't hear that much about? Also, the women that fought in the arena.... were they slaves and criminals or were they like their male counterparts, able to enter from citizenship/free person? Did they ever participate in the beast hunts? Just curious.....<br>
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Vale,<br>
Quintus Peltrasius <p></p><i></i>