The film Gladiator II places its story during the reign of the Roman emperors Caracalla and Geta, the sons of Septimius Severus, whose turbulent rule marked one of the most violent chapters of the ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Just as Joaquin Phoenix played Commodus, an actual Roman emperor, in the 2000 hit starring Russell Crowe, the new characters Geta, ...
Warning: this article contains mild spoilers. When Gladiator I was released in 2000, I was a high school Classics student and the film brought Classical literature to life for me. Dramatic depictions ...
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Gladiator II remains a massive question mark hanging over the fall season. The reported budget is absolutely massive. It might be the most expensive movie of the entire fall season, and if it fails, ...
Gladiator II is the sequel nobody saw coming. The original finished with Maximus and Commodus dead and we felt confident that the story could not be continued. So what does the sequel have to offer?
As should be abundantly clear after “Napoleon,” “Robin Hood,” and “Kingdom of Heaven,” Ridley Scott is interested in history as a vehicle for studying characters and/or huge volleys of flaming arrows.
For the first time, the underground tunnels beneath the historic Baths of Caracalla in Rome are open to the public. Thanks to an in-depth, €350,000 ($392,000) restoration, visitors can now walk ...
Discovered beneath the Baths of Caracalla, the two-story home dates to between 134 and 138 C.E. Domenico Stinellis / Associated Press On their own, the early third-century Baths of Caracalla in Rome ...
ROME (AP) — The site today is a big tourist draw for the multi-leveled brick remains of the Imperial Roman baths, libraries and gyms and the marble mosaics that decorated the floors. ROME (AP) — One ...