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Apr 5, 2018 · Discovered in 1996 and announced in September 2000, the Remains of Great Dover Street Woman (also referred to as “Gladiator Girl”) provided physical evidence to back up the substantial literary evidence from antiquity that women fought as gladiators in the arena.
- Joshua J. Mark
Archaeologists have unearthed a relief from Halicarnassus (modern-day Bodrum) depicting two female figures named Amazon and Achillia, who appear to be engaged in a fight, leading experts to suggest that they were female gladiators, or ludiae.
The earliest reference to a woman gladiator as gladiatrix is by a scholiast in the 4th–5th century, who mockingly wonders whether a woman undergoing training for a performance at the ludi for the Floralia, a festival known for racy performances by seminude dancers, wants to be a gladiatrix-meretrix – a gladiator who is a prostitute.
Mar 16, 2022 · In 200 A.D., the emperor Septimius Severus banned all female gladiatorial combat, reportedly after hearing such lewd jokes directed at women in an athletic contest that he feared the sport...
Apr 20, 2023 · In 107 AD, female gladiators known as gladiatrix entered the Colosseum, challenging the masculine energy that had defined the brutal sport of gladiatorial
- Robbie Mitchell
Jul 26, 2024 · Female gladiators likely emerged between 40 B.C. and 19, a period of great change following a civil war and Rome’s transition from republic to empire.
Female gladiators didn’t appear until relatively late in the history of Roman gladiatorial combat. Most historians place their first appearances in the 1st century AD, during the reign of Emperor Nero.
