Julius Caesar’s proclamation veni, vidi, vici, better known in English as “I came, I saw, I conquered,” is without a doubt ...

Caesar chose war. Conquering HeroA bust from ... In a particularly spectacular coup, he even managed to buy off the consul Lucius Aemilius Lepidus Paullus for a colossal down payment of some ...

A superb general and politician, Julius Caesar (c.100 BC – 44 BC / Reigned 46 – 44 BC) changed the course of Roman history. Although he did not rule for long, he gave Rome fresh hope and a ...

Those comparisons aren't gratuitous, because Gladiator II is full of echoes of the original, in which Crowe's gladiator, ...

We have certain assumptions about the kind of English ancient Greeks and Romans should speak in fictional works and ...

Take, for example, Lucius Verus (Paul Mescal), the besandaled swordsman at the center of Ridley Scott's latest macho epic, ...

Scott throws a lot more into in his sequel to the 2001 original, but he’s at a loss with what to do with it all ...

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