Gladiators keep us rapt even now. Not only is Ridley Scott’s Gladiator II in cinemas, but Anthony Hopkins’s latest vehicle Those About to Die Rome is on Amazon Prime Video, and the venerable ...

Like Ancient Rome, the industry is a cutthroat world, and there could've been only one winner in the Rome sweepstakes. Gladiator II is in theaters now. Buy Tickets ...

In an attempt to cut down on banditry, particularly in Italy and the city of Rome, Augustus passed a long-observed law called the Lex Julia de Vi (Dig. 48.6.1) that restricted the carrying of ...

In the year 211 A.D., presumably also when "Gladiator II" takes place, brothers named Caracalla and Geta briefly ruled as dual emperors of Rome after their father, Septimius Severus, appointed ...

I'm an expert on Ancient Rome - here's how the BBC's Gladiators TV show compares to the REAL fighters 2,000 years ago Classics lecturer at Oxford compares the new reboot and the original gladiators ...

Check out this video essay from Crash Course Theater to discover more details about theater in ancient Rome. Titus Maccius Plautus One of the more well-known Roman comedy playwrights was Titus ...

Even as they were adored by many fans, gladiators ranked at the bottom of ancient Rome’s rigidly hierarchical society, along with prostitutes, pimps, and actors. By law, gladiators were ...

The rarity of such statues likely reflects the idea that female gladiators in ancient Rome were scarce. They were banned by Emperor Septimius Severus in A.D. 200 with only about a dozen references ...