This reference book covers sporting events and activities of the era and the Romans who sponsored, competed in and attended them.

Table of Contents

• Preface
• A
• Administering and publicizing gladiatorial shows
• Alypius and the gladiators
• Ammianus Marcellinus: his attitude toward charioteers and their fan base
• Amphitheater collapse
• Androcles and the lion
• Apollonius (gladiator)
• Appuleius Diocles (charioteer)
• Asclepiades (pankratriast)
• Athletes (Athletae)
• Augustus and Roman sports
• The Aurelian Guild
• B
• Bestiarii
• Betting on chariot races
• Boar hunting (Pliny's account)
• Boat racing
• Boxing
• Bread and circuses
• C
• Caligula and Roman sports
• Calpurnianus, Publius Aelius Gutta (charioteer)
• Cassiodorus on chariot racing
• Catianus (charioteer)
• The Chelidonius list of Roman charioteers
• Cicero on Roman gladiators
• Circus Maximus: architectural terms
• Circus Maximus: history
• Claudius and Roman sports
• Commodus, Marcus Aurelius, and Roman sports
• Consentius (charioteer)
• Crescens (charioteer and gladiator)
• Curio's rotating amphitheater
• D
• (A) Day at the races
• (A) Day at the shows
• Domitian and Roman sports
• Driverless horses
• E
• Essedarius (pl. essedarii)
• Etruscan origins of gladiatorial shows
• F
• Factions. (Latin factio; pl. factiones)
• (A) Fifth century BCE Roman festival
• Flavian Amphitheater
• Florus (charioteer)
• Foot racing
• Fuscus (charioteer)
• G
• (A) Generous munerarius
• Gladiatorial cups
• Gladiatorial demographics
• Gladiatorial(?) tesserae
• Glaucus (gladiator)
• H
• Hadrian and Roman sports
• Hermes the gladiator
• A hunting accident … or murder?
• (A) hypothetical gladiator joins the ranks
• I
• Incitatus (charioteer … and a race horse)
• J
• Julius Caesar and Roman sports
• Juvenal and Roman sports
• Juvenal on prospective female gladiators
• L
• Ludus
• Ludus Gladiatorius (Gladiatorial School)
• M
• Martial on Roman sports
• Martial's On the Spectacles.
• Musclosus (charioteer)
• Musical performances
• N
• Naumachiae
• Nero and Roman sports
• O
• Ovid's description of a young man attempting to attract a lady at the chariot races
• P
• Pacideianus (gladiator)
• Pedibus ad quadrigam
• Petronius and Roman sports
• Physician to the gladiators
• Pliny the Younger on chariot racing
• Pompey the Great's games
• Probus and Roman sports
• Provocator
• Publicizing a gladiatorial show
• Publius Vatinius as munerarius
• R
• Race horses in inscriptions
• Race horses in Plutarch
• Res Gestae of Augustus
• Retiarius (pl. retiarii)
• (A) Riot in the amphitheater: 59 ce.
• S
• Scipio's funeral games, as described by Silius Italicus
• Scirtus (charioteer)
• Scorpus, Flavius (charioteer)
• Secutor (pl. secutores; sometimes also known as Samnites)
• Secundus, a.k.a. “The Mosquito” (gladiator)
• Selling gladiators
• Seneca the Younger on Roman sports
• Septimius Severus and Roman sports
• Sergius the gladiator, and the senator's wife
• Severus Alexander and Roman sports
• Shark attack!
• Sisinnes, an accidental gladiator
• Spartacus: gladiator and rebel
• Swimming under duress
• Swordfish: A Dangerous Catch
• T
• Tertullian on Roman sports
• Thracians (Thraex; pl. Thraces)
• Trajan as hunter and sailor
• Troy Game
• Two gladiatorial familiae
• U
• Unnamed(?) retiarius
• V
• Venatio (pl. venationes)
• W
• Wounded in dignity only: An embarrassing moment for a fisherman
• Appendix I. Glossary of Terms
• Appendix II. Chariot Racing and gladiatorial Shows
• Appendix III. important Dates in Roman general History and Sports history
• Appendix IV. Ancient Authors Cited in the Text
• Bibliography