Ancient Roman entertainment was more than just bloody gladiator games! Learn about the Roman sports and Roman theater that ...

For hundreds of years, bloodthirsty spectators would gather across the Roman Empire to watch gladiators fighting for their ...

Of the few people in the Roman Empire who dared speak out against this barbarism were the Jews. To be alone in the crowd at the gladiator games — and to have the courage to scream out ...

Gladiator fights would have been a constant in Roman social life ... to peter out with the rise of Christianity. The pagan games were no longer in favour and were abolished by Emperor Honorius ...

adding that if Jews were combatants in the games, they would have been more inclined to battle beasts than other men. In the original “Gladiator” film, Crowe plays Maximus, a Roman general who ...

As part of Variety ’s Directors on Directors series, “Oppenheimer” director Christopher Nolan weighed in on Ridley Scott ’s “ ...

The Colchester Vase depicts a real battle between a secutor and retiarius gladiator ... part in the games". A key exhibit is the Colchester Vase from AD175, discovered in a Roman-era grave in ...