Editing Gladiator (section)

===Diet and medical care===
[[File:Gladiadores después del combate, por José Moreno Carbonero.jpg|thumb|upright=1.5|''Gladiators after the fight'', [[José Moreno Carbonero]] (1882)]]
Despite the harsh discipline, gladiators represented a substantial investment for their ''lanista'' and were otherwise well fed and cared for. Their daily, high-energy, [[vegetarian]] diet consisted of [[barley]], boiled [[beans]], [[oatmeal]], ash and [[dried fruit]].<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Longo|first1=Umile Giuseppe|last2=Spiezia|first2=Filippo|last3=Maffulli|first3=Nicola|last4=Denaro|first4=Vincenzo|date=1 December 2008|title=The Best Athletes in Ancient Rome were Vegetarian!|journal=Journal of Sports Science & Medicine|volume=7|issue=4|pages=565|issn=1303-2968|pmc=3761927|pmid=24137094}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Kanz|first1=Fabian|last2=Risser|first2=Daniele U.|last3=Grossschmidt|first3=Karl|last4=Moghaddam|first4=Negahnaz|last5=Lösch|first5=Sandra|date=15 October 2014|title=Stable Isotope and Trace Element Studies on Gladiators and Contemporary Romans from Ephesus (Turkey, 2nd and 3rd Ct. AD) – Implications for Differences in Diet|journal=PLOS ONE|language=en|volume=9|issue=10|pages=e110489|doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0110489|issn=1932-6203|pmc=4198250|pmid=25333366|bibcode=2014PLoSO...9k0489L|doi-access=free}}</ref> Gladiators were sometimes called ''hordearii'' (eaters of barley). Romans considered barley inferior to [[wheat]]—a punishment for [[legionaries]] replaced their wheat ration with it—but it was thought to strengthen the body.<ref>{{cite web|last=Follain|first=John|title=The dying game: How did the gladiators really live?|work=Times Online|date=15 December 2002|access-date=24 March 2009|url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/article1069977.ece|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110429085905/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/article1069977.ece|archive-date=29 April 2011}}</ref> Regular massage and high quality medical care helped mitigate an otherwise very severe training regimen. Part of [[Galen]]'s medical training was at a gladiator school in Pergamum where he saw (and would later criticise) the training, diet, and long-term health prospects of the gladiators.<ref>{{harvnb|Futrell|2006|pp=141–142}}; {{harvnb|Carter|2004|pp=41–68}}.</ref>