The murmillo (also sometimes spelled "mirmillo" or "myrmillo", pl. murmillones) was a type of gladiator during the Roman Imperial age. The murmillo-class...

type, which by Tacitus' own time had been developed and renamed as the murmillo. The dimachaerus (Greek διμάχαιρος, "bearing two knives") used a sword...

follow, come or go after") was armed similarly to the Murmillo gladiator and like the Murmillo, was protected by a heavy shield. A secutor usually carried...

British Museum Press, 2000. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Thraces. Fresco of a murmillo and Thracian fighting, found in Pompei in 2019 v t e v t e...

Republic. Eventually, other gladiator types joined the roster, such as the murmillo and the Thraex. Under the reign of Emperor Augustus, Samnium became an...

some sort, possibly usually as a woman, and matched against a secutor or murmillo in a mock gladiatorial exhibition." Despite their low status, some retiarii...

probably the most popular type, was renamed secutor and the Gaul renamed murmillo, once these former enemies had been conquered then absorbed into Rome's...

weapons were the spear and a short sword. He was often pitted against the murmillo (armed like a Roman soldier), perhaps as a re-enactment of Rome's wars...

spectators at the Colosseum, including the Vestals, to the victorious murmillo, while the defeated retiarius raises two fingers to plead for mercy. The...

belonging to Lentulus Batiatus. He was a heavyweight gladiator called a murmillo. These fighters carried a large oblong shield (scutum), and used a sword...