The First Gladiators
The year the first recorded gladiatorial combat took place in Rome.
264 B.C
The new faith the author says was responsible for ending gladiatorial combat.
Christianity
The text structure used when an author organizes events in the order they happened.
Chronological Order/ Sequence
The name for the early slave fighters who competed at funerals.
Bustarii
The emperor who issued the first edict abolishing gladiatorial combat in a.d. 323.
Constantine the Great
The text structure used when an author identifies a challenge and then explains one or more responses to it.
Problem/ Solution
The three things an ambitious Roman could gain by staging gladiatorial shows.
People's attention, Power, Money
The reason the author calls Constantine's edict "a humanitarian gesture in theory only."
The mines were as deadly as the arena
The text structure the author uses in Chapter XI, where law after law fails before one finally works.
problem/solution
The phrase the author uses in paragraph 5 to describe Caesar's reason for staging bigger and bigger events.
keeping the populace occupied
The name of the monk who jumped into the arena in a.d. 404 to stop a fight.
Telemechus
The text structure used in paragraphs 1, 2, and 3 of Chapter II, shown by the progression from 3 pairs to 22 pairs to 60 pairs.
Chronological Order OR Cause & Effect
The action Augustus Caesar took in 22 b.c. that made gladiatorial games a state monopoly.
Took direct control over the games.
The central irony of Chapter XI, stated in paragraph 9.
The culture that started the gladiator games also ended them.
The two text structures working together in paragraph 14, where Constantine's conversion leads to an edict that is immediately revealed to be ineffective.
Cause/ Effect OR Compare/Contrast