"[The] triumphal arc, which was built in the 3rd century in memory of the Roman Empire's victory against the Persians, looks ...

We know that the Gladiator series, directed by Ridley Scott, is based loosely on actual events, but are all the characters and events depicted in the movie real? Here’s a look at the central ...

Ridley Scott's Gladiator 2 begins with a similar note as his 2000 movie, where Hanno (Paul Mescal), who is the son of the legendary gladiator Maximus (Russell Crowe) and Lucille (Connie Nielsen), lose ...

It’s a thrilling moment, but not one that any spectator at a real gladiatorial spectacle would ever have been likely to see. Gladiators only fought each other. Often shows would feature wild ...

The first reports of gladiators (the name comes from the type of sword they used: the gladius) appears around 264BCE, 2300 years ago, back when Rome was still a republic and didn’t have an ...

When I reviewed the film in November, I described Gladiator II as “an ambitious but uneven sequel that struggles to balance its expanded narrative with the charm fans remember from the original.” ...