The dream of Rome is a thematic center point of both Gladiator and Gladiator 2, begging the question of what exactly it is and how it is achieved.

So we’ll hold to our standards, but we hope to, and would love to, return to ancient Rome. FISHER To be able to do it again under the right circumstances, there’s nothing we’d like to do more.

At a gladiator match in ancient Pompeii, tensions exploded and spectators became fighters in a riot.

Archaeologists in Italy have recently discovered ancient Roman tombs while excavating a necropolis, including one with a gladiator's epitaph. Coins, lamps and vases were also found.

For a modern audience, it’s tempting to valorize the Roman gladiator — strong, brave, fierce — as a masculine ideal. Indeed, ancient Rome has become for many young men an exemplar of a ...

Airbnb has signed a $1.5 million deal with Rome's Colosseum to sponsor a series of staged gladiator fights.

TIME talked to historians of ancient Rome about what we know and don't know about gladiator fights.

Ancient Rome: A linguistic melting pot Gladiator II is set in ancient Rome. Far from being a single-accented monoculture, it was a linguistic melting pot.

The Colosseum and Airbnb are facing backlash from some Italian officials and residents after announcing a partnership to bring back gladiator "battles" in Rome for two nights only.

The biggest surprise of “Gladiator II” is not that Denzel Washington is great. Instead, it’s how pivotal his character Macrinus is to the long-awaited sequel starring Paul Mescal as the heir ...