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The Gladiator series is intended for young teens and older, with a targeted age group of 11 years old and up. [2] The story is quite clear, fast and without excessive details. The frequent action scenes are described very precisely and graphically.
Narcissus was employed as a wrestling partner and personal trainer to Commodus in order to train him for his self-indulgent appearances in the Colosseum as a gladiator. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] In AD 192, several senators, led by Praetorian prefect Quintus Aemilius Laetus , recruited Narcissus to assassinate the emperor after a previous failed attempt by ...
Gladiator: Fight for Freedom is the first book in the Gladiator Series, by Simon Scarrow and is his first book for young adults. Set in Rome in 61 BC, [ 1 ] it tells the story of Marcus Cornelius Primus who is enslaved and becomes a gladiator.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 17 February 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 ...
Paramount Pictures. Character: Lucilla What Else She’s Been In: Mission to Mars, The Hunted, 3 Days to Kill Connie Nielsen reprises her role as Lucilla, who was previously regarded in the first ...
The standard crupellarius was clad almost entirely from head to foot in lorica segmentata or laminar armour, which consisted of strips of malleable iron that was layered.. Other variations of this armor were similar to manica.
A Thraex (left) fighting a murmillo, mosaic from Bad Kreuznach, Germany. The Thraex (pl.: Thraeces), or Thracian, was a type of Roman gladiator armed in Thracian style. His equipment included a parmula, a small shield (about 60 × 65 cm) that might be rectangular, square or circular; and a sica, a short sword with a curved blade like a small version of the Dacian falx, intended to maim an ...
Pollice Verso (from Latin: with a turned thumb) is an 1872 painting by French artist Jean-Léon Gérôme, featuring the eponymous Roman gesture directed to the winning gladiator. The thumbs-down gesture in the painting is given by spectators at the Colosseum , including the Vestals , to the victorious murmillo , while the defeated retiarius ...