Dr. Racette-Campbell, a classics professor at the University of Winnipeg, is the author of “The Crisis of Masculinity in the ...

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Gladiator II is great entertainment, but Ridley Scott missed the opportunity to tap into the provocative true story of when ...

The Ridley Scott sequel Gladiator II weaves in and out of the historical record. Here’s what really happened to Lucius Verus, ...

It's not until Commodus finds Lucius pretending to be a gladiator instead of a legionnaire that he finds out the truth about ...

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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.

Ridley Scott's Gladiator is a widely loved classic, but why did the epic never get a sequel - and what was the scrapped plan ...

But I’m most interested in how the two films misrepresent the way Roman gladiators and their bodies were viewed by their republic-minded contemporaries. In the films, the brawny biceps of gladiators ...

Contrary to the "strength and honor" depicted in Hollywood films "Gladiator" and "Gladiator II," some ancient Romans ...

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Dan's lively and beautifully shot celebration of the vast amphitheatre in Italy 's capital city was crammed with factoids.