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No, the Romans just about adored gladiators. Gladiators have been likened to the rock stars of the ancient world. Wealthy women threw themselves at them, and they were highly paid for their services when they won.
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pre-historic, ancient, and really right up to modern times the stars have been used as a very accurate means of navigation.
Faint stars were not included in ancient constellations and regions of the southern sky were not visible to the ancient astronomers of northern latitudes. (source: Michael A. Seed's Foundations of Astronomy)
Many of the constellations are pretty much the same today as they were in ancient Greece. Pegasus, Hercules, and Orion are examples, as are the signs of the Zodiac. The planets have ancient Roman names. Very few of the stars have ancient European names, as astronomy of ancient times was kept alive by Arabs, who used their own names for the stars.
Why did Asians study stars
Frankly, successful Roman gladiators (those who survived trip after trip into the arena) were like pop-stars today. The people adored them, and so, not unlike today, picture of them were put up EVERYWHERE!
Ancient Mesopotamia's forest was so dense that they could not see the stars
the ancient roman language was latin, per aspera ad astra ( through hardship, to the stars)
In ancient roman times they used believe that comets were "bad omens".
The stars and constellations helped them navigate.
They did not, at least no more then any other ancient culture; if there is a strong influence between Egyptian myth and the stars, it is more then likely a modern interpretation.