THE GLADIATRIX – THE ROMAN GLADIATORS THAT WERE WOMEN

HERITAGE DAILY ^ | 5/10

[nickcarraway]

[I-ambush]

The gladiatrix program was short-lived, as they were all killed by the transiators.

[Right Brother]

There are no defining Latin words from the Roman period for a Gladiatrix (a modern invention), and documented accounts or historical evidence is limited.

Sounds like this entire article is a modern 'invention'.

[Right Brother]

Another load of BS to push the “women and men are equal” narrative and blur the distinction of gender.

[Yo-Yo]

Whoever heard of women gladiators?

[Dalberg-Acton]

[Dr. Sivana]

The gladiatrix program was short-lived, as they were all killed by the transiators.

The transiators had an unfair advantage. They were supported by the GLAADiators.

[jerod]

How can you tell the difference... Didn't everybody wear a skirt back then?

[RedMonqey]

If the games included dwarves fighting women, sounds more like a mockery of gladiators than the real thing, kind of an act between the real thing.

And just as one wouldn’t match to war with an army of dwarves(outside of Tolkien), nobody would seriously think of an all woman army.

[telescope115]

There was a tv series on the History channel called colosseum a year or two ago, and one of the episodes was about female gladiators. An interesting show, I don’t remember much of it now.

[pierrem15]

transiatores

Declines like "fellatores" :-)

[pierrem15]

Life Of Brian Latin Declension Scene

[Paal Gulli]

"THE GLADIATRIX – THE ROMAN GLADIATORS THAT WERE WOMEN""

A. TYPING IN ALL CAPS IS BAD NETIQUETTE.

B. It should read, "... gladiators who..., " not "gladiators that." that." Personal pronouns were made for people.

[I-ambush]

I’ve always loved that scene, especially when Cleese holds his to the the throat until he gets the grammar right.

[Paal Gulli]

"THE GLADIATRIX – THE ROMAN GLADIATORS THAT WERE WOMEN""

It's also mixed grammatical number (tsk, tsk).

[HartleyMBaldwin]

The author has no idea about singular vs. plural forms throughout the piece.

[pierrem15]

The Pythons were classically educated Oxbridge graduates. If you've ever had to study Greek or Latin in school, that scene is absolutely hilarious.

I had to translate part of a Greek tragedy for a class once. I stumbled over one word and after a couple hours finally figured out the root and found it in the big Liddell Greek-English lexicon. It had one entry referring to the exact line I was looking at with a surmised translation, because that was the only known occurrence of the word in ancient Greek literature.

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

Not a serious Greek scholar so I sold my Scott and Liddell about 10 years ago to someone who could use it for something other than a library decoration, or, of course, a booster seat! :)

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks nickcarraway.