The obscene graffiti directed against Caracalla and Geta in Gladiator II then is part of a long tradition of political ...

But was the helmet worn by a Jewish gladiator? Did Jewish gladiators even exist? But many have occupied themselves with ...

But I'm most interested in how the two films misrepresent the way Roman gladiators and their bodies were viewed by their ...

Cicero’s career was both marked and made by the constitutional crises that characterized the last decades of the Roman republic. In several of his speeches from the period, he characterized the ...

In honor of today’s release of the major motion picture and guaranteed box office smash Wicked, here is my non-exhaustive ...

Warning! This article contains spoilers for Gladiator 2. Gladiator 2 includes several ...

Much like modern-day football hooliganism, gladiator fandom could be weaponised in intercommunal violence. In a 59BC ...

The ancient Roman Colosseum will be the venue of gladiator fights — albeit staged — for the first time in two millennia under a $1.5 million sponsorship deal with Airbnb that aims to promote "a more ...

Airbnb is teaming up with Paramount Pictures ahead of the release of "Gladiator II" to offer an ... But there is one catch: Transportation to and from Rome must be covered by the traveler.

you will have at least seen Rome’s Colosseum on film – even if director Ridley Scott wasn’t actually allowed to shoot Russell Crowe in Gladiator there and had to build a replica Colosseum in ...

Sure, not all of us spend a lot of time thinking about the Roman Empire, but those who do deserve better than this.” Variety wrote that ‘it’s not praise’ but Gladiator 2 is ‘as good as ...

A lot has changed in the 24 years since Ridley Scott’s “Gladiator ... Roman ideals, is far more cynical than his father. And while the original film captured the grandeur of the ancient ...