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What is actually known about Roman gladiators? The revisionist view seems to be that they were professionals who barely ever killed each other while the traditional view is that they were mostly condemned slaves and criminals who were meant to die. Was it a mix of both?

by /u/Elphinstone1842 in /r/AskHistorians

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