GLADIATORIAL SHOWS - (Stage 8)
1) What shape was an amphitheatre?
2) What were the awnings for?
3) Which other building in Pompeii had a large awning?
4) Did it cost anything to go in?
5) What kinds of people normally became gladiators? (2)
6) How would you know a gladiator was a) a murmillo b) a retiarius?
7) What did it probably mean if the audience turned their
thumbs down?
8) Why are two of the gladiators in the picture on page 108 raising their arms?
9) Who made the final decision on the fate of thedefeated gladiator?
10)What normally happened at a venatio?
11)What was the word for a gladiator in this type of fight?
12) In AD 59 there was a riot in the amphitheatre in Pompeii.
a) Which other town was involved?
b) What two pieces of evidence do we have for the riot? (2)
i) __________________________ ii) something written by _____________
Extra questions
a) What entertainments now in Britain or Spain are similar to the different
entertainments in the amphitheatre? (2 or 3)
b) In what year were the amphitheatres built in
i) Pompeii ______BC
ii) Mérida ______BC
iii) Rome - the Colosseum? AD _______
c) What was the Colosseum originally called? The ..............................................