The reason Lucius quotes The Aeneid to the Emperors ... Aeneid also shares some similarities with those of both Maximus and Lucius in Gladiator 2. Just as Aeneas seeks to rebuild Troy from the ...
“Gladiator” follows Maximus (Russell Crowe), a Roman general exiled and sold into slavery to fight as a gladiator. Maximus fights for what they call “the dream of Rome” — to restore the city to a ...
Paul Mescal plays Lucius Verus in "Gladiator II." The film revealed in a trailer — and makes it clear in the movie — that Lucius is Maximus' son. In "Gladiator," Lucius is just a child ...