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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 ...
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 ().
Gladiators were trained in special schools and were armed according to the Roman standard or like some of Rome's enemies. This allowed for experimentation with different weapons and styles of combat. Some of the weapons were unusual, such as the net used by the Retiarius. Recreation of a combat between a thraex and murmillo in the Carnuntum ...
Gladiators is a sports entertainment television show that was first broadcast in the United States and was an international success during the 1990s and early 2000s.. The concept of the show is that athletic members of the public battle against the show's own Gladiators (often semi-professional or ex-athletes) to claim points in several events that require speed, strength and skill.
But Gladiator II’s most glaring flight of fancy are that battle’s shark-infested waters. “There were no sharks — ever — in the arena,” says Bartsch. “There were no sharks — ever ...
A sequel that’s been in the making for over two decades, Gladiator II finally arrived in theaters on Nov. 22, to a thumbs up (not the dreaded thumbs down) from audiences.The story picks up 20 ...
This time around, the action unfolds 16 years after we closed the book on Russell Crowe's valiant gladiator Maximus, who shuffled off this mortal coil at the end of 2000's "Gladiator," leaving ...
648 BCE — chariot and mounted horse racing were events in the ancient Greek Olympics by this time and featured in the other Panhellenic Games. [6] in the Roman Empire, chariot and mounted horse racing were major industries. [5]