 Cassius Dio takes pains to point out that when the much admired emperor Titus used female gladiators, they were of acceptably low class.Some regarded female gladiators of any type or class as a symptom of corrupted Roman appetites, morals and womanhood.Before he became emperor, Septimius Severus may have attended the Antiochene Olympic Games, which had been revived by the emperor Commodus and included traditional Greek female athletics.