Hostname: page-component-7b9c58cd5d-dkgms Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2025-03-14T21:15:33.721Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Two Left-Handed Gladiators in Britain

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

Tony Wilmott
Tony Wilmott
Affiliation:
Three Gables, 21 Castle Street, Portchester, Fareham PO16 9PU, UK. E-mail: .
Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

Core share and HTML view are not available for this content. However, as you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button.

Two of the most frequently reproduced images of gladiatorial combat from Britain are a slate relief of a retiarius from Chester and the famous Colchester vase, a barbotine decorated cup adorned with arena scenes. Despite the familiarity of these images, an important fact seems to have been generally overlooked: the objects appear to show gladiators who are left-handed.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Antiquaries Journal , Volume 87 , September 2007 , pp. 141 - 147
Copyright
Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 2007

References

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Aurelius, Victor, de Caesaribus. Aurelius Victor, de Caesaribus (trans Bird, H W, 1994), Translated Texts for Historians 17, LiverpoolGoogle Scholar
Cassius, Dio.Cassius Dio. Vol 9 (trans Cary, E, 1927), Loeb Classical Library, CambridgeGoogle Scholar
CIL IV. Inscriptions Pompeianae Herculanenses parietariae et vasorum fictilium (eds Corte, M Della and Ciprotti, P, 1952–1970), Corpus Inscriptiones Latinanum IV, Suppl III, BerlinGoogle Scholar
Coleman, K M 1996. ‘A left-handed gladiator at Pompeii’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 114, 194–6Google Scholar
Hull, M R 1963. The Roman Potters' Kilns of Colchester, Rep Res Comm Soc Antiq London 21, LondonCrossRefGoogle Scholar
Jackson, R 1983. ‘The Chester gladiator rediscovered’, Britannia, 14, 87–96CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Jacobelli, L 2003. Gladiators at Pompeii, Los AngelesGoogle Scholar
Junkelmann, M 2000a. Das Spiel mit dem Tod: so kämpften Roms Gladiatoren, MainzGoogle Scholar
Junkelmann, M 2000b. ‘Familia gladiatoria: the heroes of the amphitheatre’, in Gladiators and Caesars: the power of spectacle in ancient Rome (eds Köhne, E and Ewigleben, C), 31–74, LondonGoogle Scholar
Juvenal, , Satires. Juvenal and Persius (trans Ramsay, G G, 1918), Loeb Classical Library, LondonGoogle Scholar
Lovatelli, E C 1895. ‘Di un frammento marmoreo con rilievi gladiatori’, Bolletino della Commisione Archaeologica Communale di Roma, Serie IV. 23, 253–79, RomeGoogle Scholar
Lysons, D and Lysons, S 1810. Magna Britanniae, II (2), 431Google Scholar
RIB II. The Roman Inscriptions of Britain. Vol 2: Instrumentum Domesticum, Fasc 8 (eds Frere, S S and Tomlin, R S O, 1995), StroudGoogle Scholar
Robert, L 1940. Les gladiateurs dans l'orient Grec, ParisGoogle Scholar
Robert, L 1946. Hellenica: Recueil d'epigraphie, de numismatique et d'antiquites grecques, 3, ParisGoogle Scholar
Seneca, , Controversiae. Seneca: Controversiae. Vol i: I–VI (trans Winterbottom, M, 1974), Loeb Classical Library, CambridgeGoogle Scholar
Suetonius, , Tiberius. The Twelve Caesars. Gaius Suetonius Tranquilus (trans Graves, R, 1957), LondonGoogle Scholar
Tacitus, , Annales. Tacitus: the annals of Imperial Rome (trans Grant, M, 1956), LondonGoogle Scholar
Toynbee, J M C 1964. Art in Britain under the Romans, CambridgeGoogle Scholar
Ville, G 1981. La Gladiature en Occident des origins à la mort de Domitien, ParisCrossRefGoogle Scholar