Warning: There are spoilers ahead for Gladiator II.Marcus Aurelius’ “dream of Rome” is at the heart of Gladiator II, with ...

Warning: Full spoilers follow for Gladiator II as well as ancient Roman history circa 200 CE. Ridley Scott’s historical action film Gladiator II has arrived, and as with the 2000 original starring ...

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General Acacius (Pedro Pascal) and Lucius (Paul Mescal) in Gladiator II (2024) (©2024 Paramount Pictures; all images courtesy Paramount Pictures unless otherwise stated) Last week, Ridley Scott’s ...

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The following contains spoilers from "Gladiator II." About two hours into "Gladiator II," Hanno (Paul Mescal) steps up to deliver a speech that might finally tell us why we should care about anyone or ...

Andrew Kenrick received funding from the Consortium for the Humanities & the Arts South-East England (CHASE). Gladiator II opens with a Roman fleet brutally laying siege to a city in the north African ...

The Pax Romana—the 200-year “golden age” of the Roman Empire—was a marvel of diversity, connectivity, and unchallenged hegemony. By the middle of the second century AD, imperial Rome ruled territory ...

The Roman Empire may have left an amazing legacy — but men allegedly "geek out" about the period more often than expected. A recent TikTok trend prompted women to ask the men in their lives how often ...

Papyri from the Roman Empire provide authentic insight into how Christians in antiquity imagined Joseph and Mary's ...

When Irene Soto Marín, an assistant professor of Roman history at Harvard, goes on a first date with a man, one of two things usually happens: They’ll either start mansplaining facts about the Empire ...