Once an important port that supplied food to ancient Rome, off-the-beaten-path Testaccio remains the city's favourite ...

A plan by the Colosseum and Airbnb to give a select few people the chance to unleash their “inner gladiator” has caused an uproar among many Romans.

The Roman Colosseum is a battleground again. The New York Times reports that local Romans are none too happy about Airbnb ...

The catastrophe famously entombed, and preserved, the city’s villas, workshops, and a gladiator barracks known as the Caserma ...

We love finding animals loving homes in our community, and this week, we’d like to introduce you to Peach with Best Friends ...

Prairie Grove Battlefield State Park will commemorate the 162nd anniversary of the Battle of Prairie Grove with a two-day ...

In 79 CE, Mount Vesuvius erupted in southern Italy, burying the nearby Roman city of Pompeii in scalding stone and ash. The ...

Achillia, her opponent, was a feminized version of Achilles. Reenacting a Greek myth would have been expected in the arena: gladiators often did so. In the mythical bout, Penthesilea — a gifted ...

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Gladiator II does relish in a 2024 glow-up. Director Ridley Scott clearly enjoys updated CGI, with a fight against a rhino and a naval reenactment of the flooding of the Colosseum. The fight scenes ...

It’s a story and script problem. Lucius is the protagonist of Gladiator II. He’s the character on the hero’s journey, and he completes his arc by the end of the film. But anytime Lucius is ...

A historian sheds light into the naval battle scene in Ridley Scotts Gladiator 2, detailing the scenes accuracy and how it ...