Gladiator is about a general-turned-gladiator named Maximus (Russell Crowe), who was created just for the film. He is likely a fictionalized combination of the historical general Marcus Nonius ...

Lions, tigers, and bears. These, among many other exotic animals, are the beasts with which gladiators did battle in amphitheaters across the Roman empire. It’s a spectacle that has long captured the ...

What it tells us about the past: This tall, semi-cylindrical shield, which is in the collection of the Yale University Art Gallery, is one of the few surviving examples of a Roman "scutum," the most ...

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