The Roman gladiatrix ... s “Gladiator” — the famous vehicle of Crowe’s Maximus. In “Gladiator,” the only named woman character beyond Maximus’ wife is Connie Nielsen’s Lucilla ...

Italian archaeologists recently unearthed ancient Roman tombs during the excavation of a necropolis – including one bearing the epitaph of a gladiator. The discovery was announced by the ...

Not much information exists about Roman women in the first century ... bride and all her property onto the groom and his family) a woman could own, inherit and dispose of property.

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 ...

Visit the Colosseum in Rome today, so prominent in both Gladiator movies, and just a few blocks away you’ll find standing the Arch of Titus, showing Roman soldiers carrying away the giant ...

Maximus is a powerful Roman general, loved by the people and ... The powerful general is captured and put into the Gladiator games until he dies. The only desire that fuels him now is the chance ...