Roman Gladiatorial Games Many people saw the roman gladiatorial games just as a public display of violence, but in actuality they were more. The original gladiatorial games were not to be used as a form of amusement they were originally used as a part of a funeral ritual. The original intention of the gladiatorial games was to honor the deceased whenever someone of special importance died. The men, and sometimes women, who took place in …
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…well. The gladiatorial games were not just a place to simply watch people kill eachother, they could be used for many things. The gladiatorial games were a very big part of Roman culture for almost seven centuries. After looking back on what the gladiatorial games truly were a person will see that they were not just used a way of watching peole die, it was peole dying with honor and prisioners receiving what they earned.