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Re: If you were a Roman gladiator,what name would you adopt ?

PostPosted: Wed Sep 02, 2009 9:31 am
by Annia Minucia Marcella
I am Spartacus

Re: If you were a Roman gladiator,what name would you adopt ?

PostPosted: Wed Sep 02, 2009 7:36 pm
by Valerius Claudius Iohanes
LOL! :lol:

"Annia Minucia, no - I'm Spartacus!"

That's kind of an interesting question, since it requires you to speculate on (or research) what the Roman mass audience responded best to, in terms of "product" or "celebrity" names.... Maybe Cleo has a range of popular gladiatorial stage-names handy and could let us knwo what was popular.

Re: If you were a Roman gladiator,what name would you adopt ?

PostPosted: Sun Sep 06, 2009 9:51 pm
by Cleopatra Aelia
MEDVSA >({|;-)

Amazone or Achillia were not appropriate to me to chose because they were honored with the relief for outstanding combat and they were professionals while we in our group are only hobby fighters.

Re: If you were a Roman gladiator,what name would you adopt ?

PostPosted: Sun Sep 06, 2009 9:55 pm
by Cleopatra Aelia
Valerius Claudius Iohanes wrote:LOL! :lol:

That's kind of an interesting question, since it requires you to speculate on (or research) what the Roman mass audience responded best to, in terms of "product" or "celebrity" names.... Maybe Cleo has a range of popular gladiatorial stage-names handy and could let us knwo what was popular.


Names could have been either animals like Ursus (bear), Lupus (wolf) etc. or taken from Greek mythology or an attribute like Ferox (the wild, swift one). Junkelmann made a list of names known from inscriptions. Some Roman citizens even fought under their real names, but that's more unusual.

Re: If you were a Roman gladiator,what name would you adopt ?

PostPosted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 2:13 am
by Valerius Claudius Iohanes
Absurd and contra-chronistic as it would be, I think I'd choose "BELISARIUS".

Re: If you were a Roman gladiator,what name would you adopt ?

PostPosted: Tue Oct 20, 2009 3:25 am
by Galerius
I would go go by the name Galerius.