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The Blindfolded Gladiatrix

The NAUM 22 collections are purely digital expressions of ideas and nothing in these collections existed in any other form before being generated in a native digital image format by a neural network. This collection has 24 images produced by an artificial intelligence neural network image generator responding to a series of complex word prompts.

The Blindfolded Gladiatrix was a special treat for the Roman crowds as the most skilled of the gladiatrixes fought as a Retiarius, using a weighted net and a pointed trident. Often their helmets were constructed to be used as weapons, instantly deadly as their sharp pointed protrusions were dipped in poison.

An inscription at Ostia Antica, marking games held there around the mid-2nd century AD, refers to a local magistrate's generous provision of "women for the sword." This is presumed to mean female gladiators, most famous of all being Symora and Faustina, whose fight to the death was so gory that it made emperor Septimius Severus ban the

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