Gladiators of Pompeii
The Ancients
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The History of the Gladiator Barracks in Pompeii
Gladiator schools were found across the Roman Empire and Pompeii was no different in that sense. The people decided to change the use of these big things from the public theater to the school of gladiator. This is very interesting because for example in other cities in the Roman Empire we don't have the gladiators inside in the center of the city. So in Pompeii the gladiats were brought almost to the verycenter of the city next door to the public theater. Now this wasn't the original location of the gladiator barracks for much of the first century AD that building was further north on the Via Dinola but following a great earthquake that rocked Pompeii in 62 AD well this barracks
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