Introduction
The healthy lifestyle is one of the most important trends. Many competent works are dedicated to the history of the sport, in particular to the origin of the sport kinds and the history of sport competitions. One of them is the article that has been suggested for the present analysis.
The Analysis of the Article
The article is aimed at the analysis of sports development throughout the human history. The main idea stated in the article is that the history of the sport has not been smooth. Sport achievements have been always accompanied with human victims and moral losses.
Sports and cruelty are presented in close connection. The cases of public murder presented to the spectators as a kind of sport are described. It was the common practice with the Romans, who also enjoyed watching slave fights. Regarding this the question about humanity in sport arises.
So the origins of sports, that are commonly associated with positive emotions in the modern world, are presented as cruel and inhumane. At its early time sport was closely interrelated with death, for slaves who took part in fights usually died during the “competition”.
Another sub-theme of the article can be defined as the history of gladiators. The history of gladiators, their role in the history and their “code of honor” are subject to analyze. Their attitude to death is also described in this article.
Conclusion
The main question asked in the article is “Why gladiator culture is so attractive for the modern artists?” The history of gladiators remains of the main topics in the modern art, including cinema and literature, though the authors rather frequently allow the distortion of the historical …