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"He vows to endure to be used up, to be bound, to be beaten, and to be killed by the sword." - The gladiator's oath, relating to Petronius in the Satyricon. Gladiators are relatively synonymous with historical Rome, and even thousands of years once they performed on the sands, when people are asked about Roman culture, many think about and make reference to the bloody spectacles of men struggling to the fatality in the market. Gladiatorial fight is often thought to be barbaric, and most find it difficult to grasp how people can have enjoyed enjoying something so violent, but nevertheless, the spectacle still intrigues and fascinates customers, whether in videos like Gladiator or tv set shows about Spartacus. Gladiatorial fight traces its origins back to the early Republican period from the fifth to the 3rd hundred years B.C., but it's still unclear where these combats first appeared. Credit has been directed at both the Etruscans in northern Italy and the Campanians in southern Italy, though the first documented gladiatorial combat occurred in the 3rd hundred years B.C. at the funeral of D. Junius Brutus Pera. His sons sorted out a fight between three different pairs of gladiators who fought at their father's grave, but exactly what these first gladiatorial combats were supposed to signify remains unclear. Some assume that the spilling of human being blood was a way of offering a sacrifice to the dead, while others suggest that the contests themselves were a funeral offering in honor of the dead.
