Gladiator types

thumb|350px|Part of the Zliten mosaic from [[Libya (Leptis Magna), about 2nd 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), and one of a matched pair.]]

thumb|right|A retiarius stabs at a secutor with his [[trident in this mosaic from the villa at Nennig, c. 2nd–3rd century CE.]]

thumb|A murmillo defeating a thraex, depicted on a first- or second-century Roman canteen

upright=1.4|thumb|Relief of paired fighters Amazonia and Achillea, found at Halicarnassus, identified as women by their gendered names The gladiatrix (: gladiatrices) was a female gladiator of ancient Rome. Like their male counterparts, gladiatrices fought each other, or wild animals, to entertain audiences at games and festivals (ludi).

thumb|right|200px|Secutor thumb|right|Mosaic, 4th century AD, showing a retiarius or "net fighter", with a trident and cast net, fighting a secutor thumb|Knife handle in the form of a secutor, showing the distinctive shield, helmet, and sword

thumb|A Thraex (left) fighting a murmillo, mosaic from Bad Kreuznach, Germany The Thraex (: Thraeces), or Thracian, was a type of Roman gladiator armed in Thracian style. His equipment included a parmula, a small shield (about 60 × 65 cm) that might be rectangular, square or circular; and a sica, a short sword with a curved blade like a small version of the Dacian falx, intended to maim an opponent's unarmoured back. His other armour included greaves, a protective belt above a loincloth, and a helmet with a side plume, visor and high crest.

young men with gladiator status, whose duty was to drive a biga in Ancient Rome

thumb|Hoplomachus, depicted on a Roman glass found in the Treasure of Begram|Begram treasure. thumb|200px|A hoplomachus (left) fights a thraex (right) (Terracotta, [[British Museum).]]

Among Ancient Romans, bestiarii (singular bestiarius) were those who went into combat with beasts, or were exposed to them. It is conventional to distinguish two categories of bestiarii: the first were those condemned to death via the beasts (see damnatio ad bestias) and the second were those who faced them voluntarily, for pay or glory (see venatio). The latter are sometimes erroneously called "gladiators"; to their contemporaries, however, the Latin term gladiator referred specifically to one who fought other men. The contemporary term for those who made a career out of participating in aren

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The dimachaeri (singular: dimachaerus) were a type of Roman gladiator that fought with two swords (dual wield). The name is a borrowing into Latin of Ancient Greek dimákhairos 'bearing two knives' (δι- di- 'two' + μάχαιρα mákhaira 'knife').

type of gladiator

An essedarius was a type of gladiator in Ancient Rome who fought from a chariot. The word was used in Caesar's Gallic Wars to describe British charioteers, who were driven over the battlefield, throwing spears at the enemy, then dismounted to fight or launched themselves along the chariot yoke. There are few references to them in the literature. In Petronius' Satyricon, one fights to the accompaniment of a water-organ. Seneca remarks on the difficulty of recognising a dismounted essedarius; this has been taken to imply that their fighting from chariots was their most distinctive feature. Some,

The laquearius, laquerarius, or laqueator (plural laquearii, laquerarii, and laqueatores; literally, "snarer") was a class of Roman gladiator that fought with a lasso or noose (laqueus) in one hand and a poniard or sword in the other. The laquearius appeared late in the history of the Roman games. They may have made up a full-fledged gladiator class that fought actual bouts in the arena. If this was the case, the snarer likely followed the same tactics as the retiarius, a gladiator who wielded a throwing net and trident. Such combat-oriented laquearii fought by attempting to snare their advers

type of Ancient Rome gladiator