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Relief with Gladiators, ca. 2nd century A.D., Marble, 122.6 × 80.2 × 6.2 cm (48 1/4 × 31 9/16 × 2 7/16 in.), Gladiatorial games originated as funerary rites in which the deceased was celebrated through physical competitions. For this reason, relief depictions of gladiatorial combat were sometimes used as grave markersprobably not for gladiators themselves, but for those whose lives such games may have commemorated. The games were particularly popular during the Roman Empire; in fact, most of the known funerary depictions of gladiators are Imperial in date. As government sponsorship grew in the Empire, the games took on political overtones. By staging massive and elaborate series of combats that often lasted for months and involved the slaughter of scores of men and wild animals in arenas throughout the empire, the Romans culturally unified their territory and affirmed their power, both to create such dramatic spectacles, and over life and death themselves. , Roman, Roman, Sculpture.

Relief with Gladiators, ca. 2nd century A.D., Marble, 122.6 × 80.2 × 6.2 cm (48 1/4 × 31 9/16 × 2 7/16 in.), Gladiatorial games originated as funerary rites in which the deceased was celebrated through physical competitions. For this reason, relief depictions of gladiatorial combat were sometimes used as grave markersprobably not for gladiators themselves, but for those whose lives such games may have commemorated. The games were particularly popular during the Roman Empire; in fact, most of the known funerary depictions of gladiators are Imperial in date. As government sponsorship grew in the Empire, the games took on political overtones. By staging massive and elaborate series of combats that often lasted for months and involved the slaughter of scores of men and wild animals in arenas throughout the empire, the Romans culturally unified their territory and affirmed their power, both to create such dramatic spectacles, and over life and death themselves. , Roman, Roman, Sculpture.
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Relief with Gladiators, ca. 2nd century A.D., Marble, 122.6 × 80.2 × 6.2 cm (48 1/4 × 31 9/16 × 2 7/16 in.), Gladiatorial games originated as funerary rites in which the deceased was celebrated through physical competitions. For this reason, relief depictions of gladiatorial combat were sometimes used as grave markersprobably not for gladiators themselves, but for those whose lives such games may have commemorated. The games were particularly popular during the Roman Empire; in fact, most of the known funerary depictions of gladiators are Imperial in date. As government sponsorship grew in the Empire, the games took on political overtones. By staging massive and elaborate series of combats that often lasted for months and involved the slaughter of scores of men and wild animals in arenas throughout the empire, the Romans culturally unified their territory and affirmed their power, both to create such dramatic spectacles, and over life and death themselves. , Roman, Roman, Sculpture
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3359 x 4992 px | 48.0 MB
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28.4 x 42.3 cm | 11.2 x 16.6 in (300 dpi)
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