The first Gladiator film was released in 2000 so I ... Tim McInnerny is Senator Thraex. Except for Lucius, everyone else is a bad guy, a badder guy or a baddest guy. I always think of Denzel ...

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.

Rome, circa 209 A.D. Sixteen years after the demise of Emperor Marcus Aurelius and Maximus Decimus Meridius in Gladiator (2000), the Roman Empire is now ruled by the tyrannical Emperors Caracalla ...