Popular media, such as the 2000 film "Gladiator," often depict Roman gladiators in gory battles ... if a gladiator was on the verge of being killed. If the person holding gladiator fights granted ...

Gladiator reenactors pose amid Roman-era ruins in Arles ... determined gladiator spectacles were not bloody free-for-alls among men who fought to kill. Instead, they were highly regimented ...

Then you watch “Gladiator II" – with killer baboons, romping-stomping rhinos, a Roman ... is killed in the attack and Lucius is taken as a slave. Lucius arrives in Rome and a bloody fight ...

Warning: Full spoilers follow for Gladiator II as well as ancient Roman history circa 200 CE ... than stage wars from afar ...

The tunnel under the Roman amphitheater in Arles, France, is dark and cool. The shade is a welcome relief from the blazing Mediterranean sun beating down on the amphitheater’s sand-strewn arena ...

Tens of thousands of Romans roaring ... to mark grand funerals – a kind of blood sacrifice for the dead. But by the time the Colosseum opened, gladiators were big business – and battles ...

It’s not hard to conjure the image of the Roman gladiator. He probably looks like Russell Crowe, clad in leather, dust, and blood ... to be beaten and to be killed by the sword”?

Researchers have identified bite marks, most likely from a lion, on the pelvis of a man buried in what is believed to be a cemetery for ancient Roman gladiators ... all killed over the course ...

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. Even though it’s at least 1,500 years since the last Roman gladiators fought, thanks to TV and movies such as ...

Warning: Full spoilers follow for Gladiator II as well as ancient Roman history circa 200 CE ... The twin emperors were real, and they both met bloody ends like their movie counterparts.

A sequel to “Gladiator” sounds ... wife Arishat (Yuval Gonen). A Roman naval fleet commanded by Gen. Acacius (Pedro Pascal) invades their city, Arishat is killed in the attack and Lucius ...