The secutor’s helmet was smooth and egg-shaped to prevent it from getting caught on a retiarius’s net. With just two eyeholes, the helmet must have been hard to see or breathe through ...

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Well, for many Romans murmillo versus retiarius was the best gladiator pairing. The retiarius is the half-naked guy with the trident and the net and the murmillo’s faceplate was necessary to ...

In this bout, we crank things up a notch with the addition of a Retiarius going up against a Secutor. This is one of the classic "mismatched" fights from the gladiatorial arenas of Ancient Rome. To ...

For example, the 'retiarius' (net man) wore a short apron, some padding on his right arm, a protective mini-shield on his right shoulder, and a throwing net in the right hand. Or the 'secutor ...

Well, for many Romans murmillo versus retiarius was the best gladiator pairing. The retiarius is the half-naked guy with the trident and the net and the murmillo’s faceplate was necessary to ...

Researchers recently discovered its decoration depicted a real battle between two gladiators in Colchester - Memnon, a secutor, and his retiarius opponent, Valentinus. Secutor and retiarius were ...

The Colchester Vase depicts a real battle between a secutor and retiarius gladiator For hundreds of years, bloodthirsty spectators would gather across the Roman Empire to watch gladiators fighting ...

There were also many different types of gladiators – the Thracian, Samnite, Murmillo, and Retiarius – that were classified based on the weapons they used as well as their fighting techniques.

retiarius, or contrarete.) Finally, after a spread of grapes, pomegranates, almonds, and walnuts, guests train in gladiator combat and do a little fight with other guests. Opposition to the event ...