# 34 Tin 54mm Toy Figure Soldier Roman Gladiator Thraex

The Roman Gladiator "Thraex". 2-th AD.

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The Zliten mosaic from Libya (Leptis Magna) prob. 2nd c. AD: A thraex and murmillo

  Different gladiators specialized in different weapons, and it was popular to pair off combatants with widely different, but more or less equivalent, equipment. Some of the first gladiators had been prisoners-of-war, and so some of the first types of gladiators, Gauls, Samnites, and Thraces (Thracians) used their native weapons and armor.
  The thraex or Thracian was a type of Roman gladiator, armed in the Thracian style with small rectangular shield and a sword. He and the hoplomachus, with his Greek equipment, were usually pitted against the murmillo, armed like a legionary, mimicking the opposition between Roman soldiers and their various non-Italian enemies.
  Thraex were armed with a long slightly curved blade, with the intention of maiming an opponent's unarmored back.
  Gladiators (Latin: gladiatrs, "swordsmen" or "one who uses a sword," from gladius, "sword") were professional fighters in ancient Rome who fought against each other, wild animals, and condemned criminals, sometimes to the death, for the entertainment of spectators. These fights took place in arenas in many cities from the Roman Republic period through the Roman Empire.
  The word comes from gladius, the Latin word for a short sword used by legionaries and some gladiators.

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