Discuss the role of women as athletes in Roman athletics.
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There is general agreement that the participation of women in sport during the time of the Empire and the Republic was for entertainment and not taken seriously. Swimming and dancing, along with tossing balls back and forth, were activities that women engaged in along with visits to the thermae. Mosaics found in Sicily, circa A.D. 300, depict fashionable women participating in weight-training exercises to tone muscles. Women also competed as gladiators. According to the accounts of Roman historian and biographer Suetonius, Emperor Domitian (A.D. 51-A.D. 96) sponsored a number of "over-the-top" spectacles and extravagant shows in the Flavian Amphitheater, which featured men and women gladiators. The number of women gladiators steadily increased over the years, especially during the reign of Emperor Nero (A.D. 37-A.D. 68). As their numbers increased over time, the spectacle and carnage became so disgusting that Emperor Septimus Severus outlawed their participation in A.D. 200.
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