Gladiatrix: When women battled to the death

From: The Malay Mail | Date: January 29, 2002 | Copyright information

THE moment of truth had arrived. In an arena in the Asia Minor city of Halicarnassus, a pair of gladiators locked in a fight to the death reeled across the sand, exhausted from parrying and charging.

Finally, unable to get the better of each other, the combatants removed their helmets and gazed defiantly toward the stands.

The wealthy sponsor of the games watched the spectators demand mercy for the two women who stood before them, battered, bloodied and bone weary.

The decision: The lives of both women would be spared - at least until their next match.

The event was subsequently memorialised ...

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