Successful gladiators were the movie stars of the first ... gladiatorial contests are often seen as the dark side of Roman civilization. Given they belonged to such a civilized and sophisticated ...

At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ... of Britain’s most enigmatic archaeological finds - a Roman gladiator helmet, discovered buried in a field in East Anglia.

Gladiator culture united this north-western extremity of the Roman Empire with hundreds of ... used this atmospheric sense of a long-buried history to echo the pain of a lost marriage in The ...

In fact, it’s a pretty simple restaging of Gladiator’s tale of political upheaval seen through the eyes of a warrior. But as history has ... finds himself in Roman custody and forced to ...