Secutor

Is that from Roman times? It looks like Northwestern Mideival head armour to me.

 

Something I found interesting and please tell me if I am generalizing here.

 

Do you notice back then that nations that were undeveloped like: Gaul, Germania, and Britania are now the most advanced in the world? Also, areas diregarding the Euro: Italy, Greece, and the Middle East are not that developed but was considered the most developed in its day?

 

Perphaps a changing of the guards.

That helmet was designed (with it's tiny fish like eye holes and crest) to provide adaquate protection from the Retairus' trident. This is the helmet of the secutor (chaser) who usually fought the Retairus (fisherman). He got his name because the Retairus fought in a style which included much running about the arena. The Secutor had to chase him down.

 

The fish-like design, presumably, developed because the Secutor was fighting a fisherman (fish vs. fisherman. the Romans had an odd sense of humor)

Thank you LW I was slow to answer. The secutor helmet evolved toward the "small eye" variant , if you go back a litle way in the gallery to the group of Gladiator helmets you will see an earlier version ,which looks murmillo -like with much bigger eye holes.

YW Pertinax.

 

Lol gladiators are one of the few topics within Roman history which I am actually knowledgable enough about to feel like i'm contributing something