Gladiators in ancient Anatolia lived to entertain the masses

I would say they were dying to entertain the masses too.

And then during the thrilling final act, it often came true.

> A pair of mounted gladiators featured in the initial spectacle

Anyone have primary sources for this? Diodorus?

I hate how politically jaded I have become reading anything related to modern archeology.

When first introducing Ephesus (why not add '(a Greek founded and speaking city)'. I mean they are talking about Roman cultural introduction to the existing culture, saying 'Anatolia' doesn't give me context of the culture being introduced to Roman ways. There was no 'Anatolian' culture.

Why say 'Greek-style athletic contests' when they were just actual greek athletic contests held largely in Greek founded, Greek speaking cities? With so much modern agenda filtering archaeology I can't help but see erasure that much of Anatolia was Greek or greek founded. I just see a misleading implication that these cities hosting 'greek style contests' weren't, you know, culturally Greeks. It is crazy that there are 14 instances of Anatolia and the only time Greek occurs is 'Greek style'.

This looks like professional wrestling to me. Way to go, Anatolians!

This is a semi-related topic from a video I recently watched during medieval sieges: "What motivated a person to be first to climb up a ladder attacking a fortress?"

https://youtu.be/bwM0gP1p0xw?si=rt_lkLF5j-Mx3Gc8

I don't understand why the title got edited by OP from "How gladiators in ancient Anatolia lived to entertain the masses" to remove the "How". It just turns it into an obvious statement and doesn't convey what the article is about, which is about their life, training, etc.

duh

Just like me :(