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Aethiopiae were rare in the capital under Nero; it was evidence of a brilliant and costly affair when the gladiators for a whole day's show consisted only of Aethiopes. [ 13 ] One "Aethiop" soldier is reported (by Historia Augusta , a source of mixed reliability) in Britannia in about 210 CE , his black skin being considered a bad omen [ 14 ...
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 ...
The Romans of the Classical period had no specific word for female gladiators as a type or class. [1] The earliest reference to a woman gladiator as gladiatrix is by a scholiast in the 4th–5th century, who mockingly wonders whether a woman undergoing training for a performance at the ludi for the Floralia, a festival known for racy performances by seminude dancers, wants to be a gladiatrix ...
In the year 211 A.D., presumably also when "Gladiator II" takes place, brothers named Caracalla and Geta briefly ruled as dual emperors of Rome after their father, Septimius Severus, appointed ...
Spartacus [a] (/ ˈ s p ɑːr t ə k ə s /; c. 103–71 BC) was a Thracian gladiator who was one of the escaped slave leaders in the Third Servile War, a major slave uprising against the Roman Republic.
And then there is the epic naval fight, in which Mescal’s gladiator character takes on adversaries on boats in a water-filled Colosseum. Such practices “were meant to recreate real battles ...
Gladiator II might seem too wild to be believed — Colosseum rhinos and baboons and sharks, oh my! — but it’s based on real-life Roman history and people.. Many of the characters in director ...
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 ...