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Gladiators: Why were they so popular? The Romans believed that they inherited the practice of gladiatorial games from the Etruscans who used them as part of a funeral ritual (servants would duel to the death for the right to provide companionship to their owners in eternity). The first gladiatorial games were offered in Rome in 264 BC by sons of Junius Brutus Pera in their father's honour after he had died. Gladiatorial combat became a very popular form of public spectacle very quickly in Rome, and some gladiators were recruited from tough slaves and prisoners of war. In 73 BC some gladiators in Capua, south Italy, rebelled against the poor treatment of slaves. They were led by Spartacus. Thousands of slaves and peasants joined them, and despite several successes against the Roman legions, they were eventually beaten and Spartacus was killed. In ancient Rome, gladiators could earn the idolised status of...

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