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Books on Gladiators
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It is an all too common and remarkably stupid thing in today's society that anything considered socially unacceptable gets compared to the holocaust if done in a group and compared to Hitler if it is a person. Is the world truly getting that soft and out of touch that any minor thing in comparison gets compared to this? It is stupid to compare something like this unless there are direct parallels the situation. Humanity has done, is doing, and will do many things that are distasteful and considered "evil". Most of the time people make such proclamations they have little interest in understanding, looking at the history / information regarding, and do not care how it may effect those who the situation involves past making a good story or more dramatic read. From the excerpts sited I do not see how gladiator games are anything like the holocaust aside from the fact that such violence is not easy for the overcultured, oversheltered modern mind to grasp. What period was the author referring too? Gladiator games covered a long time period and it was not really until the later days where they became a truly bloody spectacle of death that might have any type of comparison to the holocaust even rudimentarily. What were the political / social developments that resulted in this? It seems foolish to draw such comparisons without further parallels. There was a lot of reason for the environment for the Nazi Germany / holocaust situation to develop and thrive and the rest of the world had a lot to do with creating that as well. I'm not going to spend anymore time on this aside from I think the author should be ashamed for making such base comparisons without further elaboration. One should not claim to be a historian and utter such imbecilic comments and should instead take up tabloid writing. Such comparisons should not be made lightly.

BTW: My apologies for commenting on a touchy subject, but this post is more about the author's foolishness in using a controversial subject to sensationalize rather than a discussion about the holocaust which hopefully this doesn't become before it gets moderated.
Derek D. Estabrook
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Books on Gladiators - by jbd_29349 - 05-01-2007, 02:56 AM
Re: Books on Gladiators - by Tib. Gabinius - 05-01-2007, 10:48 PM
Re: Books on Gladiators - by Medusa Gladiatrix - 05-03-2007, 12:02 PM
Re: Books on Gladiators - by Jeroen Pelgrom - 05-03-2007, 03:54 PM
Re: Books on Gladiators - by Olaf - 07-02-2007, 08:11 AM
Re: Books on Gladiators - by Medusa Gladiatrix - 07-03-2007, 09:48 AM
Re: Books on Gladiators - by Medusa Gladiatrix - 07-03-2007, 09:59 AM
Re: Books on Gladiators - by Olaf - 07-03-2007, 04:14 PM
Re: Books on Gladiators - by Medusa Gladiatrix - 07-04-2007, 07:08 AM
Re: Books on Gladiators - by Gashford - 08-30-2007, 12:20 PM
Re: Books on Gladiators - by Medusa Gladiatrix - 08-30-2007, 01:05 PM
The Osprey Book - by Conal - 08-30-2007, 04:03 PM
Books - by Paullus Scipio - 08-31-2007, 04:43 AM
Re: Books - by Conal - 08-31-2007, 08:25 AM
Re: Books on Gladiators - by Hugh Fuller - 09-12-2007, 09:08 PM
Re: Books - by Medusa Gladiatrix - 11-27-2007, 07:45 PM
Books on Gladiators - by Paullus Scipio - 11-27-2007, 09:05 PM
Re: Books on Gladiators - by Medusa Gladiatrix - 11-28-2007, 03:55 PM
Books on gladiators - by Paullus Scipio - 11-28-2007, 10:08 PM
Re: Books on Gladiators - by Medusa Gladiatrix - 11-29-2007, 07:31 PM
Re: Books on Gladiators - by Ironhand - 12-12-2007, 02:10 PM
Re: Books on Gladiators - by Jvrjenivs - 01-28-2008, 05:41 PM
Re: Books on Gladiators - by Olaf - 01-28-2008, 06:50 PM
Books On Gladiators - by romanonick - 02-20-2008, 11:53 PM
Books on Gladiators - by Paullus Scipio - 02-21-2008, 01:03 AM
Re: Books on Gladiators - by john m roberts - 02-21-2008, 02:40 AM
Re: Books on Gladiators - by Olaf - 04-14-2008, 02:16 PM
Re: Books on Gladiators - by Titus Cincinnatus - 04-15-2008, 09:58 AM
Re: Books on Gladiators - by Olaf - 04-15-2008, 11:14 AM
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Re: Books on Gladiators - by Titus Cincinnatus - 04-15-2008, 10:10 PM
Re: Books on Gladiators - by Jvrjenivs - 04-16-2008, 06:20 AM
Re: Books on Gladiators - by martijn.wijnhoven - 04-16-2008, 06:29 AM
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Re: Books on Gladiators - by Titus Cincinnatus - 04-16-2008, 09:58 AM
Re: Books on Gladiators - by Martin Moser - 04-16-2008, 10:39 AM
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Re: Books on Gladiators - by martijn.wijnhoven - 04-16-2008, 01:26 PM
Re: Books on Gladiators - by Titus Cincinnatus - 04-16-2008, 09:50 PM
gladiator book - by michiann - 08-08-2008, 03:33 AM
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Junklemann book - by michiann - 08-29-2008, 07:33 AM
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Re: Books on Gladiators - by Olaf - 08-29-2008, 08:11 AM
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Re: Books on Gladiators - by Olaf - 09-02-2008, 11:48 AM
Re: Books on Gladiators - by Jvrjenivs - 09-02-2008, 12:33 PM
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Re: Books on Gladiators - by greekwarrior34 - 09-02-2008, 05:45 PM
Re: Books on Gladiators - by Olaf - 09-02-2008, 09:04 PM
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Re: Books on Gladiators - by Olaf - 09-16-2008, 06:50 AM
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Re: Junklemann (2000) book - by Medusa Gladiatrix - 09-16-2008, 07:50 PM
Re: Books on Gladiators - by Gorgon - 03-19-2009, 09:58 PM
Re: Books on Gladiators - by Martin Kealey - 03-19-2009, 11:40 PM
Re: Books on Gladiators - by Gorgon - 03-19-2009, 11:47 PM
Re: Books on Gladiators - by Gorgon - 03-20-2009, 12:20 PM
Re: Books on Gladiators - by Martin Kealey - 03-20-2009, 01:37 PM
Re: Books on Gladiators - by Dan from Britannia - 03-21-2009, 09:57 PM
Re: Books on Gladiators - by Martin Kealey - 03-22-2009, 01:17 AM
Re: Books on Gladiators - by Gorgon - 03-22-2009, 02:52 AM
Re: Books on Gladiators - by Medusa Gladiatrix - 04-07-2009, 06:15 PM
Re: Books on Gladiators - by Gorgon - 04-08-2009, 01:50 AM
Re: Books on Gladiators - by Dan from Britannia - 04-08-2009, 10:47 AM
Re: Books on Gladiators - by Gorgon - 04-08-2009, 03:43 PM
Re: Books on Gladiators - by Dan from Britannia - 04-08-2009, 04:00 PM
Re: Books on Gladiators - by Gorgon - 04-11-2009, 02:04 PM
Re: Books on Gladiators - by Medusa Gladiatrix - 04-13-2009, 07:12 PM
Re: Books on Gladiators - by Gorgon - 04-13-2009, 08:31 PM
Re: Books on Gladiators - by Gorgon - 04-28-2009, 02:32 PM
Re: Books on Gladiators - by Medusa Gladiatrix - 04-29-2009, 08:03 PM
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Books on Gladiators - by Medusa Gladiatrix - 11-04-2013, 07:23 PM
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