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The tendency was also to view the events through our own eyes and to see them as pitiful or horrifying, although to most Romans empathy with victims of the arena was inconceivable. In the past few decades, however, scholars have started to analyze the complex motivations for deadly public entertainments and for contradictory views of gladiators as despised, yet beloved hero-slaves.
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Over the past few decades, researchers have tried to understand how Romans could be entertained watching people being killed in those arenas. Researchers have also been interested to know why the slave gladiators were despised and at the same time loved/praised as heros; this is contradictory.
- Over the past few decades, researchers have tried to understand how Romans could be entertained watching people being killed in those arenas.
- Researchers have also been interested to know why the slave gladiators were despised and at the same time loved/praised as heros; this is contradictory.
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