Open Eye: Outcasts and objects of lust The truth about gladiators is even stranger than Hollywood fiction, says Eireann Marshall From: The Independent - London | Date: April 3, 2001| Author: Eireann Marshall | Copyright 2001 The Independent - London. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

Gladiators were agents of death who occupied centre stage at gladiatorial games. Either slaves or lowly citizens, these men were objects of fascination who were both heroised and ostracised in Roman cities.

Gladiators were also sex symbols who were thought to be sexually potent and whose sweat was collected and sold as an aphrodisiac. According to the satirist Juvenal gladiators were so irresistible that some women were willing to throw their lives away by eloping with maimed, disfigu...

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