What was the occupation of Artine Artinian's friend who immortalized him in the play "The Best Man"?
Artine Artinian Artine Artinian (December 8, 1907 – November 19, 2005) was a distinguished French literature scholar of Armenian descent, notable for his valuable collection of French literary manuscripts and artwork. He was immortalized as a fictional character by his Bard colleague Mary McCarthy in the novel "The Groves of Academe" (1952) and by his friend Gore Vidal in the play "The Best Man" (1960).
Bestiarii Among Ancient Romans, bestiarii (singular bestiarius) were those who went into combat with beasts, or were exposed to them. It is conventional to distinguish two categories of "bestiarii": the first were those condemned to death via the beasts (see "damnatio ad bestias") and the second were those who faced them voluntarily, for pay or glory (see "venatio"). The latter are sometimes erroneously called "gladiators"; to their contemporaries, however, the term "gladiator" referred specifically to one who fought other men. The contemporary term for those who made a career out of participating in arena "hunts" was venatores.