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...
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List of Roman gladiator types (section Thraex)
tall, oblong shield in the legionary style. Murmillones typically fought a thraex, but occasionally the similar hoplomachus. A parmularius (pl parmularii)...
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order to prevent calluses and blisters. The murmillo usually fought the thraex (Thracian) or hoplomachus, with whom he shared some of the equipment (notably...
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Thrax or Thraex (Latin borrowing of Ancient Greek Θρᾷξ "Thracian") may be Historical figures: Dionysius Thrax (c. 170-90 BC), a Hellenistic grammarian...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Pottery fragment depicting the Thraex or Thracian gladiator (right), fighting a hoplomachus....
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as two factions at the gladiator fights. List of Roman gladiator types Thraex "Gladiatorial types". www.durolitum.co.uk. Archived from the original on...
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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...
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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...
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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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Peloponnesian War Wars of Alexander Battle of Issus Battle of Callinicus Thraex Roman Thrace Spartacus Third Servile War Thraco-Roman Maximinus Thrax Justinian...
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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...
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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...
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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"...
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language Thracian mythology Thraco-Dacian Thraco-Cimmerian Thraco-Illyrian Thraex Dioscorides's book (known in English by its Latin title De Materia Medica...
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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...
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Recreation of a combat between a thraex and murmillo in the Carnuntum Roman ruins....
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Thraex gladiator with wooden sica, a weapon known to have been used by the Dacians along with the falx....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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Ross Tree canopy Gladiators August 2021 Andrew Curry Fernando Baptista Thraex gladiator Mysteries of the Solar System September 2021 Michael Greshko Monica...
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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...
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