To improve the quality of the gladiators, and partly to allay senatorial fears of a private army, Caesar housed his troupe amongst his clients. It is only in 53 BC that there are records of an actual school of gladiators being housed separately within Roman city limits.
Despite their wealth and the adulation from the crowds, gladiators, like actors and prostitutes, were considered to be outside society and lower than slaves, therefore no noble family would want to be willingly aligned with them. The stain could echo down the generations. Although the sexual appeal of gladiators is well documented, these were seen as passing fancies as long as they were kept out of the public domain.
For anyone wishing to read further on the period, I would highly recommend the following books. They have been very useful to me and I found Grant's book on gladiators and Holland's book on the end of the Republic particularly riveting.
Carcopino, Jerome, Daily Life in Ancient Rome-The People
and the City at the Height of the Empire (Penguin 1941),
London. Croom, A.T., Roman Clothing and Fashion (Tempus Publishing
Ltd 2000), Gloucestershire. Goldsworthy, Adrian, In the Name of Rome-The Men Who
Won the Roman Empire (Weidenfeld & Nicholson 2003),
London. Grant, Michael, Gladiators-The Bloody Truth (Penguin), London. Holland, Tom, Rubicon: The Triumph and Tragedy of the
Roman Republic (Little, Brown 2003), London. Woolf, Greg, ed. Cambridge Illustrated History: Roman
World (Cambridge University Press 2003), Cambridge.
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