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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 ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 3 December 2024. 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 ...
These consisted of a three-part mini-series, in which previous winners competed to be crowned "Supreme Gladiators Champion", and a one-off special entitled "Battle of the Giants", where male gladiators competed against each other for the title of Ultimate Gladiator. The four episodes were first broadcast back-to-back on 29 May 1999 on First ...
Ridley Scott’s 2000 film Gladiator was a sensational tale of honor and betrayal in the ancient Roman empire. In the film, Rome’s dying emperor Marcus Aurelius fears that his son Commodus ...
The first types of gladiators were named after the enemies of the Republic of Rome: the Samnites, Thracians, and Gauls. The Samnite , heavily and elegantly armed and probably the most popular type, was renamed Secutor and the Gaul renamed Murmillo , as the lands inhabited by those peoples were absorbed into the empire.
True, "Gladiator" star Russell Crowe can’t return as Maximus (for obvious reasons), but “Gladiator II” is packed full of nostalgia, familiar characters and callbacks to the 2000 film.
Fans of the original will recognize the same high-stakes drama and gritty authenticity, but this time with a mostly new cast: Paul Mescal stars as Lucius, who is taken as a prisoner of the Roman ...
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 an unreliable source ) in Britannia in about 210 CE , his black skin being considered a bad omen [ 14 ] for North African Emperor ...