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Most of them were slaves, schooled under harsh conditions, social outcasts, and segregated even in death. But some of them were volunteers that wanted to risk their lives and their legal and social standing. Animal fights at the Colosseum, also known as venatio in Latin, was one of the entertainment options held at the Colosseum that involved the hunting and killing of wild animals.
From each corner of the Roman Empire they would bring exotic wild beasts to Rome and they would present hunts before the main events, the duels between gladiators. Although not all the animals were ferocious, most of them were. They varied between lions, elephants, bears, tigers, deer, wild goats, leopards, crocodiles, boars, hippopotamuses, wild dogs and even rabbits. This was introduced by Marcus Fulvius Nobilior, who celebrated his greek campaign by hosting games where gladiators lions and panthers.
Skip to content. History of the Colosseum. Why is the Colosseum Broken? Original Structure of the Colosseum. Fights at the Colosseum. Plutarch tells us that Julius Caesar , a couple of centuries later, presented over three hundred and twenty pairs of fighters. Tacitus tells us that emperor Trajan , a couple of centuries after Julius Caesar, presented as many as a thousand pairs of Gladiators.
Emperor Augustus , in power just after Julius Caesar, decreed a law whereby no more than 60 pairs of fighters could be presented in a single show but this and other restrictive laws were soon forgotten by his successors. The length of the games accordingly increased so that the games held by Titus in 80AD to celebrate the construction of the Colosseum lasted a hundred days.
Trajan organised games which lasted a hundred and twenty-three days. Four months! What is possibly most amazing is the organisation and sheer flow of men and beasts coming from all over the Empire in order to feed the voracity of such an event.
There must have been a real trade in wild animals from across the Empire and not surprisingly various species were reduced to extinction. Please email us if you feel a correction is required to the Rome information provided. The Games at the Colosseum.
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