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The top surface of a Roman clay lamp depicting two armed gladiators

Stage 8: gladiātōrēs

From the fictitious drama of the theatre we move to the terrible, real drama of the amphitheatre - the oval arena where gladiators fight, sometimes to the death. Why were these games so popular, and who were these men and women of the arena?

Story explorers

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Story Explorers display the stories of the CLC in an interactive format, allowing you to check vocabulary, grammar parsing and derivations.

Stone relief of a retiarius with his trident, net and protection for his right arm and neck.
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gladiātōrēs

Tensions and local rivalries rise in Pompeii as the gladiatorial games approach.

Detail from a fresco depicting a bestiarius with a spear fighting a lion
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Stage 8: vēnātiō

After the gladiators it's the turn of the animals - but the lions haven't read the script.

Line drawing of Quintus using a spear to defend Felix from a wild boar
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Quīntus audāx

A hunting trip goes dramatically wrong for Quintus and Felix.

Roman mosaic of a lion
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Practising the Language

Androclus et leō

How a lion saved the life of a condemned man.

Language activities

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Sorting Words asks you to drag and drop words to sort them by meaning, case, etc.

Words Endings gives you a sentence in English together with the same sentence in Latin, but with one or more endings to be chosen from a drop down list.

Vocab Testers are against the clock, multiple choice or type in, and can be set to all words in this stage, up to this stage, etc.

Reviewing the Language exercises are digital versions of exercises towards the back of the CLC textbooks.

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Sorting Words

Cases 1

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Sorting Words

Cases 2

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Sorting Words

Cases 3

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Sorting Words

Characters

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Sorting Words

Declensions

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Sorting Words

Meanings

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Sorting Words

Which Person

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Word Endings

Nouns

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Vocabulary Tester

Stage 8: Vocabulary Tester