The Colosseum was the largest amphitheater built in ancient Rome.The massive arena held thousands of spectators, who packed the stands to watch gladiators battle to the death and fight exotic ...

To mark the opening of the Colosseum in 80 C.E., the Roman emperor Titus staged a staggering spectacle, flooding the arena with water and bringing in “horses and bulls and some other ...

Those About To Die, a 10-episode epic drama from Peacock, takes us inside the arena where gladiators fought for glory and freedom. And while they fought, the people of Rome happily watched on and ...

Artists have long depicted Roman gladiators battling it out against big cats as you can see in this mosaic created in A.D. 320 in Rome. However, there has never been any physical evidence to ...

Rome teeters on the brink in Ridley Scott’s “Gladiator II.” Its fall is said to be imminent. The dream it once symbolized is dead. The once high-minded ideals of the Roman Empire have ...

Gladiator II is the sequel nobody saw coming. The original finished with Maximus and Commodus dead and we felt confident that the story could not be continued. So what does the sequel have to ...

The Real History Behind Ridley Scott’s ‘Gladiator II’ and Life as a Fighter in the Ancient Roman Arena The “Gladiator” sequel centers on Lucius Verus, the secret son of Russell Crowe’s ...