in reality he had a soldier stab the emperor to death. And unlike the Washington version, it seems Macrinus was happy to rule Rome rather than let it destroy itself. With the army’s backing ...

Thraex then tells Macrinus about the coup, and he subsequently informs the Emperors, finally earning his place beside the most important people in Rome. Lucius Verus faces a rhinoceros and feral ...

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This story appears in the January/February 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine. The emperor Hadrian was well known for building monuments across the Roman Empire, a territory that ...

Denzel Washington isn’t upset about not being nominated for his role as Macrinus in “Gladiator II,” the actor told the New York Times in an interview published Saturday. “I was sitting ...

Lucius chafes against Rome's carnivorous nature represented in Acacius, the depravity modeled by its twin emperors, and its social order embodied in Macrinus, a former slave who has clawed his way ...

Rome, circa 209 A.D. Sixteen years after the demise of Emperor Marcus Aurelius and Maximus Decimus Meridius in Gladiator (2000), the Roman Empire is now ruled by the tyrannical Emperors Caracalla ...

In Gladiator II, Lucius is all grown up and ready to enter the arena as a gladiator with the help of Macrinus Macrinus ... by the tyrannical Emperors who now lead Rome with an iron fist ...