Gladiator

Mosaic at the National Archaeological Museum in Madrid showing a retiarius named Kalendio (shown surrendering in the upper section) fighting a secutor named Astyanax. The Ø sign by Kalendio's name implies he was killed after surrendering.

A mosaic from Bignor Roman Villa.

The Gladiator Mosaic, on display at the Galleria Borghese, is one of the earliest known examples of contemporary art with gladiators as subjects.

The Zliten mosaic from Libya (Leptis Magna) c. 2nd century CE: A thraex and murmillo, a hoplomachus and murmillo (who is signaling his defeat to the referee), and a matched pair.

Two Venatores fighting a tiger. Mosaic in Great Palace of Constantinople.

Two fighting paegniarii represented in a mosaic from Nennig, Germany

Helmet of a Secutor depicted in a glass flask.

2 Provocatores fighting on a oil lamp.

Murmillo defeats Thraex depicted on a flask.

Venator or hunter fighting a bear.

Terracotta, British Museum, Hoplomachus vs. Thraex.

Murmillo fighting Thraex on an oil lamp.

Secutor depicted on a knife.

Gladiator depicted on a knife.

Venator fighting a Wild boar.

Roman gladiator. Bronze. Museo Nazionale Romano in Palazzo Massimo.

The Amphitheatre at Pompeii, depicting the riot between the Nucerians and the Pompeians.

Secutor fighting a Retirarius on the ground, Text reads "IMPROBVM". Roman relief 2nd century AD, Museo Nazionale Romano, Terme di Diocleziano, Rome.

Secutor vs. Retirarius.

Secutor vs. Retirarius "VS SCOLASTICVS DAMASCENVS".

Jean-Léon Gérôme's 1872 painting Pollice Verso.

A model of the Ludus Magnus, the single most important gladiatorial school in the Empire.

Recreation of a combat between a thraex and murmillo in the Carnuntum Roman ruins.

Early Roman Gladiator and his Patron (from the Comic History of Rome, c. 1850).