Art from ancient Thrace is often flashy and brusque, as befits a warrior tribe. The archaic society was known for the prowess ...

Murmillos were pitted against faster moving gladiator types, such as the thraex. Thraex took their name from the conquered territory of Thrace (Bulgaria today). They carried a short, curved dagger ...

Local Britons, descended from the tribes who long ago rebelled under Cunobelinus (Cymbeline) and Boudicca, now live peacefully side-by-side with retired legionaries from Gaul, Thrace, Italy and ...

He is thought to have been born in Thrace (modern day Balkan region ... came to be known as the Third Servile War, or the Gladiators’ War. Leading his army of runaway slaves, which has been ...

It was wielded by the warriors of Thrace, roughly modern-day Bulgaria. The Romans fought numerous campaigns against the Thracians and created a specific gladiator type, the Thraex, to fight in the ...

Treacherous Roman senator Lucius Quintilius plans a secret journey into Thrace to recover a legendary ... and Terenzius, an ex-gladiator and Nero look-alike who fools the local Thracians into ...