An 1,800-year-old mosaic fragment featuring a topless leopard fighter confirmed that female gladiators battled animals in the ...

Secrets of the Dead is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire Tablet, Roku, Samsung Smart TV, ...

The film Gladiator II places its story during the reign of the Roman emperors Caracalla and Geta, the sons of Septimius ...

Equally fictionalized are the film’s depictions of Roman life, gladiatorial combat, and the spectacle culture of the empire.

Dr. Racette-Campbell, a classics professor at the University of Winnipeg, is the author of “The Crisis of Masculinity in the Age of Augustus.” For a modern audience, it’s tempting to valorize the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Like its predecessor, "Gladiator II" is inspired by history. That doesn't mean it's bound by actual historical facts, however. Now ...

Ridley Scott will always print the legend. As should be abundantly clear after “Napoleon,” “Robin Hood,” and “Kingdom of Heaven,” Ridley Scott is interested in history as a vehicle for studying ...

Gladiators only fought 2-3 times annually, spending most of their time training intensively in gladiator schools called ludus. Their diet was predominantly vegetarian, featuring barley-based meals ...

This rare depiction may be the greatest surviving monument to women in the Roman arena. -The famous Roman satirist Juvenal wrote during the 1st Century AD, around the same time as the poet Martial.