A Note on Cooperative Strategies in Gladiators’ Games

Autor: Radu Vranceanu, Jérôme Ballet, Damien Bazin
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2013
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Zdroj: Games, Vol 4, Iss 2, Pp 200-207 (2013)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2073-4336
DOI: 10.3390/g4020200
Popis: Gladiatorial combat was in reality a lot less lethal than it is depicted in the cinema. This short paper highlights how cooperative strategies could have prevailed in the arenas, which is generally what happened during the Games. Cooperation in the arena corresponded to a situation of the professionalization of gladiators, who been trained in gladiatorial schools. This case provides an analogy of the conditions under which cooperation occurs in a context of competition between rival companies.
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