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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 20 January 2025. A retiarius ("net fighter") with a trident and cast net, fighting a secutor (79 AD mosaic). There were many different types of gladiators in ancient Rome. Some of the first gladiators had been prisoners-of-war, and so some of the earliest types of gladiators were experienced fighters ...
Pages in category "Roman gladiators" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
A gladiator (Latin: gladiator ' swordsman ', from Latin gladius 'sword') was an armed combatant who entertained audiences in the Roman Republic and Roman Empire in violent confrontations with other gladiators, wild animals, and condemned criminals. Some gladiators were volunteers who risked their lives and their legal and social standing by ...
Women Gladiators (Jusepe de Ribera, 1636) ... The reason was the sense of honor that the Carreras had, as Mackenna disrespected the family name many times.
A retiarius stabs at a secutor with his trident in this mosaic from the villa at Nennig, c. 2nd–3rd century CE.. A retiarius (plural retiarii; literally, "net-man" in Latin) was a Roman gladiator who fought with equipment styled on that of a fisherman: a weighted net (rete (3rd decl.), hence the name), a three-pointed trident (fuscina or tridens), and a dagger ().
"American Gladiators gave them that stage to go after their athletic aspirations, be on TV and win $25,000," he says. "I think this was really this first bit of where American culture changed, not ...
Paul Mescal's Lucius and Joseph Quinn and Fred Hechinger's co-emperors are some of the returning and based-on-real-life characters present in 'Gladiator II.'
Although the original character's name was Erebus, the name was changed to Mercato prior to filming. He is present at most of the games at the arena and is killed when the pulvinus collapses on top of him. Numerius Calavius (Lliam Powell). The son of magistrate Calavius with a fascination for gladiators, Spartacus in particular.