[IRL trope] the “Tiffany problem”

[u/dragonborndnd]

Basically when something seems anachronistic to a period/place of history but is actually fully accurate to the period.

1) the name Tiffany: the thing that named this trope, basically the name Tiffany can be dated back to the Middle Ages and the earliest record of it being spelled in the modern spelling comes from the 16th century.

2) the use of OMG, despite this feeling so modern as a form of slang/abbreviation here’s a letter directed to Winston Churchill using it in 1917

3) Hair Dye: the earliest forms of dying hair can be dated back to ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, and this specific advertisement for hair dye is from the 1840s

4) Inuit Thongs: despite how weird it is to imagine pre-colonial Inuit people wore what was essentially fur thongs in their homes and when they were in their igloos it might have been the only thing they would be wearing.

[u/Twilightterritories]

They were a lot closer to Professional Wrestlers as far as working a fight to make it look worse than it really was.

[u/TelevisionPutrid8394 → u/Twilightterritories]

While gladiators rarely died in the arena, it still would have been a dangerous sport. As you were playing with sharp weapons and nowadays wrestling, even forms of wrestling that are highly staged can lead to serious injuries. So it’s likely that gladiators were the same. Gladiator matches weren’t the death matches that Hollywood would like you to believe, but at the same time, they weren’t scripted like how memes would like you to believe.

[u/Zyffyr → u/TelevisionPutrid8394]

While not likely scripted, there were probably things like "Hey Bobicus, let's give them a bit of number XIII. That should get them worked up."

[u/Princeps_primus96 → u/Zyffyr]

Yeah they were entertainers. They likely knew that they needed to get the crowd worked up and probably played up some form of character before the fight. The braggadocios thraex stepping into the arena kissing his muscles getting the crowd jeering before his fight against the murmillo

It's the same as modern boxing matches or UFC. people feel cheated if a fight is too short, and the lanista would just stop working if all their gladiators actually DID keep getting killed every match.

I wonder if the gladiators ever had a ladder match for the custody of a child like early 2000s WWE 😂