Rome’s infamous Gladiators have captured the public imagination for millennia because of their brutal fights in the arenas of ...

Gladiator II is a funny title for a movie ... transposed onto Denzel Washington’s Macrinus and Tim McInnerny’s Thraex. And if you thought the triple tiger battle was the showstopping ...

but also catches the eye of Macrinus (Denzel Washington), a gladiator wrangler who has enough clout, he’s a patron of Senator Thraex’s (Tim McInnerny) wild bacchanals and occasionally in the ...

“Gladiator II”, directed by Ridley Scott ... After winning a bet against the corrupt Senator Thraex, he extracts details of Acacius’ impending coup from him in return for debt forgiveness, and has the ...

Murmillos were pitted against faster moving gladiator types, such as the thraex. Thraex took their name from the conquered territory of Thrace (Bulgaria today). They carried a short, curved dagger ...

Thraex gladiators had lighter armour and were more nimble, while a retiarius carried a trident and a fishing net, in order to ensnare the more heavily armoured and less mobile gladiators.