In the climax of the movie, Macrinus murders Caracalla and attempts to make himself the de facto emperor with the support of the Praetorian ... it means to be a “real” Roman changing as ...

Warning: Full spoilers follow for Gladiator II as well as ancient Roman history circa 200 CE ... Gladiator II is. The real Lucius Verus died as a boy. Paul Mescal stars as Lucius Verus, the ...

Here’s what you need to know about the real history behind Gladiator II ... encouraging onlookers to return to the democratic ideals of the Roman Republic. Like Maximus and Lucius, most ...

Geta and Caracalla were real emperors, and the movie takes place ... Ruling the Ancient Roman World, most of that time would have been spent in transit to Rome from present-day York, U.K., where ...

but it’s based on real-life Roman history and people ... the senatorial class,” instead serving under Caracalla as a Praetorian prefect dealing with Rome’s civic affairs, adds Bartsch.

Now an adult, he’s been living in the ancient northwest African kingdom, Numidia, under the guise of a new identity to escape Roman politics ... were based on real ancient people – and ...

Roman Emperor Marcus Opellius Macrinus reigned ... in administrative roles in lower-ranking positions of the Praetorian Guard. Under Emperor Caracalla in A.D. 212, Macrinus was promoted to ...