Gladiator II star Paul Mescal reveals that camera operators would dress up as Roman soldiers due to Ridley Scott's filming strategy. Coming 24 years after the beloved original Gladiator ...

(Dinner with the gladiators wasn't fancy: expect beans and ashes.) Wearing an armguard and carrying just a shield and sword resembling those Roman legionary soldiers used, the secutor, meaning ...

Rome wasn’t just an empire of power—it was an empire of brutality. From ruthless military conquests to gruesome gladiator battles, the Romans wielded violence as a tool of control. But what drove this ...

Gladiator duels demanded a commanding stage, and nothing quite screamed “drama” like the Roman amphitheaters ... sons, mothers, soldiers, and slaves – and their everyday stories.

But who emerges victorious in the Roman Colosseum ... to a group of Acacius’ soldiers gathered outside of Rome. His plan? To rally his fellow gladiators to try to stop his mother’s execution ...

The ubiquitous gladiator motifs found on Roman wine cups show that this kind ... At Pollentia (modern day Majorca), Emperor Tiberius needed soldiers to quell riots borne of frustration at the ...

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The idea of a Roman gladiator taking on a lion might ... which confirms that the skeletons buried at the cemetery were gladiators, rather than soldiers or slaves, as initially thought.

The Thracian gladiator Spartacus, a popular character in movies and television, outsmarted the Romans until his demise in the first century B.C. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

Bite marks found in a Roman-era skeleton are the first ... that the skeletons buried at the cemetery were gladiators — and not soldiers or slaves, as previously thought, according to Malin ...

and soldiers remained there until the end of the Roman period in the early fifth century, according to the study authors. Researchers think gladiator-style arena events were occurring there as ...