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Films about gladiatorial combat, combat involving gladiators, armed combatants who entertained audiences in the Roman Republic and the 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 appearing in the ...
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 ().
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 ...
But sea battles, semi-aquatic creatures and plenty of other eye-popping spectacles were part of the real-life games at the ancient Roman Colosseum. 'Gladiator II' exaggerates, but historians say ...
A secutor (pl. secutores) was a class of gladiator in ancient Rome. Thought to have originated around 50 AD, the secutor ("follower" or "chaser", from sequor "I follow, come or go after") was armed similarly to the murmillo gladiator and like the murmillo , was protected by a heavy shield.
Helmed by "Gladiator" director Ridley Scott, the movie stars Denzel Washington, Connie Nielsen, Paul Mescal and Pedro Pascal and is a follow up to the first "Gladiator" film that came out in 2000.
At some time in the development of Rome's gladiator games, cestus fighting was introduced as an arena spectacle. [5] Drawing of a cestus. The basic Roman cestus was made of hard leather straps, which enclosed and protected the fighter's lower arm and fist. The straps could be studded, or, more extremely, spiked. [6] Caestūs were