- A
hoplomachus (pl. hoplomachi) (hoplon
meaning "equipment" in Gr****) was a type of
gladiator in
ancient Rome,
armed to
resemble a Gr****
hoplite (soldier...
- 4th
century gloss of Juvenal's
comments on the beast-hunter Mevia. The
hoplomachus (Romanised Gr**** for "armed fighter",
Latin plural hoplomachii) wore...
-
calluses and blisters. The
murmillo usually fought the
thraex (Thracian) or
hoplomachus, with whom he
shared some of the
equipment (notably arm
guards and all-enclosing...
- Ludia's
female gladiators used the same
weapons and armour. He and the
hoplomachus, with his Gr**** equipment, were
usually pitted against the murmillo,...
-
alternating yellow and black.
Gladiators such as the
samnis and the
hoplomachus also
probably wore
large feathered crests.
There is some
evidence (Vegetius...
- The
Samnite was
replaced by
similarly armed gladiators,
including the
hoplomachus and the secutor. The
Samnite was
named for the
people of Samnium, an...
-
Pottery fragment depicting the
Thraex or
Thracian gladiator (right),
fighting a
hoplomachus....
-
another secutor, Mazicinus, is
struck by the
retiarius Almunus, an
hoplomachus fatally wounds the retiarius, Callimorfus, and
finally a
smaller gladiator...
-
century AD. It
shows (left to right) a
thraex fighting a murmillo, a
hoplomachus standing with
another murmillo (who is
signaling his
defeat to the referee)...
- They are also
referred to as
fighting against a
gladiator class called hoplomachus, which,
according to
Justus Lipsius, was a ****tive
variant of the Samnite...
