Casey Chong on the best sword-and-sandal movies of the 21st century… With Ridley Scott returning to Ancient Rome this month in the long-gestating sequel Gladiator II [read our review here], it looks ...
Hannibal of Carthage (modern Tunisia), a great military strategist, led elephants through the Alps to defeat Rome.
The defeat at the Battle of Manzikert was a pivotal moment for the Byzantine Empire as it allowed for the Turkification of ...
The naumachiae seem mostly to have been recreations of famous historical engagements – in the movie, it's the Battle of ...
Officials in Rome have expressed their concerns following news that the Colosseum will welcome visitors after hours for a one ...
A 2,000-year-old copper knife handle depicting a gladiator will go on display at Hadrian’s Wall, in the north of England, ...
And his latest, Gladiator II, has already drawn the ire of historians. Details like a rhino ridden by a gladiator and sharks munching on unlucky combatants in the Colosseum have been raising eyebrows ...
A list of spellbinding historical movies like Ridley Scott's Gladiator 2 with engaging stories and larger-than-life ...
Are you not entertained? Films set in Ancient Rome deliver spectacle, silliness – and lots of men in leather skirts. These ...
Where there was once Maximus, now there is Lucius. 20 years on and Rome is still in peril – here’s what goes down in the ...
The largest recorded naumachia came some years later. This reenactment of battle between the “Rhodians” and “Sicilians” was ...
When Roman soldiers invade the province, Lucius is forced into slavery and taken to Rome, where he becomes a gladiator. After ...