Olympius’s biography, fact, career, awards, net worth and life story

Intro Gladiateur africain
Is Military leader
From Egypt
Tunisia
Type Military
Gender male
Birth

Egypt, Egypt

Death

Carthage, Tunisia

Olympius est un gladiateur africain du début du VI siècle mentionné par Luxorius, un poète qui vivait à la cour des derniers rois Vandales.

Biographie

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Originaire d’Égypte, Olympius était venator ou bestiaire à l’amphithéâtre de Carthage, capitale du royaume vandale, où il conquit une grande renommée. Luxorius nous dit qu’il était noir (nigro) et doté d’une force herculéenne, et qu’il était l’idole du public quand il combattait seul dans l’arène les bêtes sauvages, ou quand il les combattait avec d’autres gladiateurs.

Olympius est mort très jeune (Luxorius nous dit qu’il est mort avant d’avoir atteint l’âge adulte), probablement lors d’une chasse à l’amphithéâtre. Luxorius composa en latin une épitaphe en l’honneur du jeune gladiateur :

Venator jucunde nimis atque arte ferarum
Saepe placens, agilis, gratus, fortissimus, audax,
Qui puer ad juvenes dum non adjunxeris annos,
Omnia maturo conplebas facta labore.
Qui licet ex propria populis bene laude placeres,
Praestabas aliis ut tecum vincere possent.
Tantaque mirandae fuerant tibi praemia formae,
Ut te post fatum timeant laudentque sodales.
Heu nunc tam subito mortis livore peremtum
lste capit tumulus, quem non Karthaginis arces
Amphitheatrali potuerunt ferre triumpho!
Sed nihil ad Manes hoc funere perdis acerbo:
Vivet fama tui post te longaeva decoris,
Atque tuum nomen semper Karthago loquetur.

L’épitaphe ne paraît pas être une œuvre purement littéraire ; tout fait supposer qu’elle a été reproduite sur le tombeau d’Olympius.

Les poèmes de Luxorius prouvent la survie de la gladiature dans le royaume vandale d’Afrique.

Source primaire

  • Anthologie latine

Voir aussi

Articles connexes

  • Amphithéâtre de Carthage
  • Venationes

Bibliographie

  • Christophe Hugoniot : « Les spectacles dans le royaume vandale », In: Thelamon Françoise, Les jeux et les spectacles dans l’Empire romain tardif et dans les royaumes barbares, Publications des universités de Rouen et du Havre, 2008, p. 179.
  • Christopher Epplett, Gladiators and Beast Hunts : Arena Sports of Ancient Rome, Pen and Sword, Barnsley, 2015, p. 102.
  • Frank M. Snowden (en), Before Color Prejudice : The Ancient View of Blacks, Harvard University Press, Cambridge (Massachusetts), 1991, p. 16, pp. 77-78 & p. 91.
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