Early excavators didn’t much care where a particular statue or mosaic fragment had been found and what stories might be coaxed from them. By contrast, “Pompeii: Stories from an Eruption ...

They were written about by Roman naturalists, such as Pliny the Elder, and depicted in art including a well-preserved second-century BCE mosaic from Pompeii. The scenes in Gladiator 2 that depict ...

Set in 79 A.D., POMPEII tells the epic story of Milo (Kit Harington), a slave turned invincible gladiator who finds himself in a race against time to save his true love Cassia (Emily Browning ...