A hoplomachus (pl. hoplomachi) (hoplon meaning "equipment" in Greek) was a type of gladiator in ancient Rome, armed to resemble a Greek hoplite (soldier...
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List of Roman gladiator types (section Hoplomachus)
4th century gloss of Juvenal's comments on the beast-hunter Mevia. The hoplomachus (Romanised Greek for "armed fighter", Latin plural hoplomachii) wore...
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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...
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The Samnite was replaced by similarly armed gladiators, including the hoplomachus and the secutor. The Samnite was named for the people of Samnium, an...
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alternating yellow and black. Gladiators such as the samnis and the hoplomachus also probably wore large feathered crests. There is some evidence (Vegetius'...
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Pottery fragment depicting the Thraex or Thracian gladiator (right), fighting a hoplomachus....
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They are also referred to as fighting against a gladiator class called hoplomachus, which, according to Justus Lipsius, was a putative variant of the Samnite...
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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)...
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another secutor, Mazicinus, is struck by the retiarius Almunus, an hoplomachus fatally wounds the retiarius, Callimorfus, and finally a smaller gladiator...
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Palearctic Genus Hamatophylus Weirauch, 2006 - Nearctic, Mexico Genus Hoplomachus Fieber, 1858 - Holarctic Genus Ihermocoris Puton, 1875 - Palearctic Genus...
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