Why This Gladiator's Helmet Was Built to Beat One Man

Under the emperor Caligula, Rome built a new kind of gladiator to fight just one opponent. The retiarius fought almost naked with a trident and a net, and the crested helmet of his old opponent, the mirmillo, kept catching in the mesh. The answer was the secutor. His helmet was smooth as an egg, with a rounded metal crest so the net slid off. 📖 Source: François Gilbert, Gladiators 1st-5th Centuries AD, Osprey Elite 258 The eyeholes were barely three centimetres across, too small for a trident prong, and the visor was thickened to take the blows. Three of these helmets were found in the gladiator school at Pompeii. The price was sight and air. So the secutor carried a big curved shield, a short blade, an armguard and one short greave, and he had to close the distance fast. His name meant the pursuer. Later helmets swapped the two eyeholes for many small holes so the man inside could see, but the pairing never changed. Secutor and retiarius are still the fighters on the last gladiator mosaics of the 4th century. Even the emperor Commodus fought as a secutor. Every video here is planned, written and managed on musayko.com, a platform I built for creators. Timeline History is what it looks like in use. Which warrior should we reconstruct next?