The fact that gladiatorial combats were the centerpiece of Roman spectacle afforded individual gladiators the opportunity to achieve fame, notoriety and, in some cases, even wealth. ... "People and Princes without exception refused their assistance to Antony yet the men who were being kept for gladiatorial combats, who were among the most despised, showed the utmost zeal in [Antony and Cleopatra's] behalf and fought most bravely "7 Despite Dio's antipathy and dislike towards gladiators on the whole it is apparent that he did, in fact, believe that some gladiators and, by extension, c...

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Born in 59 BCE, he would have been a child during the Gallic Wars of Caesar, a teenager by the time Cato the Younger had committed suicide, refusing to accept Caesar's clementia, and an adult approaching middle age by the time of Octavian's victory over Antony and Cleopatra. ... In fact, one of the few times that Livy seems to side with the plebs in Ab Urbe Condita is the murder of the tribune Gnaeus Genucius, occurring just a few chapters after the agrarian law of Cassius (Livy, 2.54). ...

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