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...

tall, oblong shield in the legionary style. Murmillones typically fought a thraex, but occasionally the similar hoplomachus. A parmularius (pl parmularii)...

order to prevent calluses and blisters. The murmillo usually fought the thraex (Thracian) or hoplomachus, with whom he shared some of the equipment (notably...

Thrax or Thraex (Latin borrowing of Ancient Greek Θρᾷξ "Thracian") may be Historical figures: Dionysius Thrax (c. 170-90 BC), a Hellenistic grammarian...

challenge. His usual opponent was the murmillo, but he might fight the thraex in exceptional cases. Justus Lipsius conjectured that it was one of two...

secutor-based types such as the Murmillo were secutarii. Lighter types, such as the Thraex, were equipped with a smaller, lighter shield called a parma, from which...

court. Jacobi reprises his role from the original film. Tim McInnerny as Thraex Alexander Karim as Ravi Rory McCann as Tegula May Calamawy, Lior Raz, Peter...

Troy), and later against the Rutulians. The parmula was the shield used by thraex gladiators. It was also used by the Roman vexilliferi or flag bearers that...

Pottery fragment depicting the Thraex or Thracian gladiator (right), fighting a hoplomachus....

as two factions at the gladiator fights. List of Roman gladiator types Thraex "Gladiatorial types". www.durolitum.co.uk. Archived from the original on...

possibly Thrace, from the Hadrianeum The shorter sica as the weapon of the Thraex gladiator (Gallo-Roman mosaic, 1st century) Dacian warfare Dadao Falcata...

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Peloponnesian War Wars of Alexander Battle of Issus Battle of Callinicus Thraex Roman Thrace Spartacus Third Servile War Thraco-Roman Maximinus Thrax Justinian...

translit. Spártakos; Latin: Spartacus; c. 103–71 BC) was a Thracian gladiator (Thraex) who was one of the escaped slave leaders in the Third Servile War, a major...

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other gladiator types joined the roster, such as the murmillo and the Thraex. Under the reign of Emperor Augustus, Samnium became an ally and integral...

of an opponent's shield, and stab or slash them in the back. Since the thraex gladiator's usual opponent was the scutum (large shield) carrying murmillo...

legions. There is some question as to Spartacus's nationality, however, as a Thraex (plural Thraces or Threses) was a type of gladiator in Rome, the title "Thracian"...

language Thracian mythology Thraco-Dacian Thraco-Cimmerian Thraco-Illyrian Thraex Dioscorides's book (known in English by its Latin title De Materia Medica...

by the legions. There is some question as to Spartacus's nationality. A Thraex was a type of gladiator in Rome, so "Thracian" may simply refer to the style...

Recreation of a combat between a thraex and murmillo in the Carnuntum Roman ruins....

Thraex gladiator with wooden sica, a weapon known to have been used by the Dacians along with the falx....

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Maison aux Fleurons (house of flowers) in the rue de la Paix Mosaic of a Thraex gladiator in a house at the hautes promenades. Mercurius of a house. Several...

to belong to the late 1st or early 2nd century AD, whereas the type of thraex and murmillo’s helmets seem to be intermediary between that of Pompeii and...

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Peloponnesian War Wars of Alexander Battle of Issus Battle of Callinicus Thraex Roman Thrace Spartacus Third Servile War Thraco-Roman Maximinus Thrax Justinian...

mythology, the mythology of the Thracians Thracian horseman, an ancient cult Thraex/Thracian, a type of Roman gladiator Maximinus the Thracian, a Roman emperor...

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fighting sword was the sica, a short single-edged curved sword used by the Thraex gladiators in the Roman world. The sica was developed during the Bronze...