Melissa SPQR gladiator system

Yalexander
2 mar 2019
Tempo di lettura: 2 min

These days I was in Melissa, "Melissa, Melissa", into the ancient roman SPQR arena, where usually takes place gladiator show, to see one of this. A bit rude, yes, but too much fun !

Have a look of the entirely program:

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PROGRAM – 28.02.2019

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1. PREFATIO: Introduction, opening of the Ludi (Lu)

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2. EXHIBITIO ANIMALIBUS: Presentation of animals: Ino, Sabi, Cookie as bears, Messalina as elephant, Alba as lion and Mera as wild boar.

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3. VENATIO: Elephant vs bears (Ino, Sabi and Cookie as bears vs Messalina as elephant)

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4. VENATIO: Wild boars hunt (Eve and Alba as lions vs Mera and Sabi as wild boars)

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5. NARRATIO - Schools and training - part II - (Lu)

All prospective gladiators, whether volunteer or condemned, were bound to service by a sacred oath (sacramentum).

Novices (novicii) trained under teachers of particular fighting styles, probably retired gladiators. They could ascend through a hierarchy of grades (singular: palus) in which primus palus was the highest.

Lethal weapons were prohibited in the schools – weighted, blunt wooden versions were probably used. Fighting styles were probably learned through constant rehearsal as choreographed 'numbers'. An elegant, economical style was preferred. Training included preparation for a stoical, unflinching death. Successful training required intense commitment.

Those condemned ad ludum were probably branded or marked with a tattoo (stigma, plural stigmata) on the face, legs and/or hands. These stigmata may have been text – slaves were sometimes thus marked on the forehead until Constantine banned the use of facial stigmata in 325 AD. Soldiers were routinely marked on the hand.

Gladiators were typically accommodated in cells, arranged in barrack formation around a central practice arena.

Juvenal describes the segregation of gladiators according to type and status, suggestive of rigid hierarchies within the schools: 'even the lowest scum of the arena observe this rule; even in prison they're separate'.

Retiarii were kept away from damnati, and 'fag targeteers' from 'armoured heavies'. As most ordinarii at games were from the same school, this kept potential opponents separate and safe from each other until the lawful munus.

Discipline could be extreme, even lethal. Remains of a Pompeian ludus site attest to developments in supply, demand and discipline; in its earliest phase, the building could accommodate 15–20 gladiators. Its replacement could have housed about 100 and included a very small cell, probably for lesser punishments and so low that standing was impossible. ------------------------

6. POMPA GLADIATORUM : Parade and training of the gladiators in arena - sword training

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7. MUNUS: Hoplomachii vs Dimachaerii (Messala and Mera as hoplomachii vs Ino and Eve as dimachaerii)

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8. MUNUS: Samnites vs Murmillones (Sabi and Cookie as samnites vs Eve and Alba as murmillones)

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9. END: All in arena.

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To know everything about the events in Melissa, contact my friend Titus Iulios Sabinus (titusiuliussabinos) inworld or visit the event panel on the sim. You can be a gladiator too, or, funny, a furious animal fighter !