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Kyle Hoekstra 20 Aug 2024 Website Twitter   Image Credit: Those About to Die / NBCU While the bloodshed on film and TV adaptations might persuade us otherwise, leading speaker on  gladiatorial  life and historical consultant Alexander Mariotti insists that death in the ancient Roman arena was “an absolute rarity”. Joining Tristan Hughes on The Ancients, the consultant on Ridley Scott’s  Gladiator  and Amazon Prime’s  Those About to Die  (in which he even has a cameo) explains that deaths, when they happened, more often followed later from injuries. “Combat sports were very violent,” says Mariotti. “And gladiatorial combat is part of that pantheon of sports.” However the use of weapons made it particularly dangerous. “One of the reasons they don’t wear tunics is because the linen or the wool getting stuck in a wound would kill you [from] an infection.” Those About to Die Image Credit: Those About to Die / NBCU “But what we do find from modern forensics ...

David Hamm Three Roman legions  were almost totally destroyed in the battle where they were ‘surprised’ by an attack of Germanic tribesmen in the  Teutoberg forest , year  AD 9 . The average size of a Roman legion was approximately 6,000 men —100 men to a ‘century’, six ‘centuries’ to a ‘cohort’, and ten cohorts to a legion. In the first century AD, nobody on either side kept detail rosters of active personnel nor their losses, thus your guess is as good as mine. One artist’s view of the Battle of the Teutoberg Forest, AD 9. Tim Hare  · Probably most of them. I believe there are some mentions of bloodied legionaries stumbling back over the Rhine weeks later in the sources. And there seems to be some information that is known about what decisions the Roman leadership took on the final day of the battle after Varus had committed suicide, which was probably taken from survivors. But I don’t think anyone of note (i.e. the equestrian rank) survived. Anyone who escaped the...