The story of Gladiator kicks off in 180 AD. In the opening scene, the Roman Empire reaches its zenith under Marcus Aurelius (Richard Harris), who leads his armies to victory against Germanic tribes in ...

In the middle of the second century CE, the most powerful man in the Western world sat in the legionary fortress of Carnuntum ...

In Gladiator, director Ridley Scott created a swords-and-sandals epic that was half-history and half-fiction, and that ...

Mary at the Marcus Aurelius statue Amy Richlin from UCLA is writing a book on these early letters from the emperor. She agrees he was “certainly immature” but believes this is all about the ...