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Gladiators: who were these men?

Famous and legendary, gladiators came from a cruel reality. Discover the men forced to fight for survival and their fragile hope of freedom.

2 min readBy Editorial team

Famous, legendary, some with names immortalized in history: everything most feral and energetic comes to mind when a gladiator is mentioned. But contrary to how it looks from the outside, these men came from a reality even crueler than the one they were subjected to.

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Enslaved people, prisoners or the extremely poor, they were men trained to fight for survival, risking their lives in contests whose sole purpose was to end in death. And the longer a gladiator remained undefeated, the greater the anticipation of how he would finally be defeated.

As entertainment was a political tool, they were merely more pieces in a great—and dangerous—game of interests, their only motivation the faint hope of perhaps defeating the entire system and finally receiving freedom.

And yes, in O Senhor e a Serva we will see the deepest layers of one in particular.

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