Before you are pulled into this new cycle of Roman excess, political intrigue, and spectacle centered on the sands of the ...

Director Ridley Scott has a long history of depicting battle scenes, from his first film, The Duellists, all the way through ...

Gladiator stars Russell Crowe as Maximus Decimus Meridius, a Roman general betrayed by the Emperor’s son ... winning over the ...

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It has been 24 years since Ridley Scott gave the world a glimpse of the Roman Empire in Gladiator ... Commodus decides to ...

A tiny gladiator figurine was used as a handle on a 2,000-year-old copper folding knife found in an English river, suggesting ...

The Sci-Fi Channel’s take on Frank Herbert’s books captured their uncanny atmosphere better than any adaptation before – or ...

In the opening scene, the Roman Empire reaches its zenith under Marcus Aurelius (Richard ... with fear while eating away Rome’s resources to fund 150 days of Colosseum games to distract the population ...

The knife handle is a testament to how pervasive the gladiator celebrity culture was in the Roman Empire, reaching all the ...

That too didn’t last. From the 3rd century AD, internal instability, economic challenges, and constant invasions weakened the ...

Ancient Greeks prepared Roman gladiators for violent contests, although these were quite different from the Olympics the ...

Airbnb is giving people a chance to role-play as gladiators as part of a film promotion — to the dismay of some locals.