When the Colosseum was opened by Emperor Titus in 80 AD, it was inaugurated with ceremonies lasting 100 days, which included two staged naval battles known as naumachiae.

However, staged naval battles at the Colosseum could work if the boats were sized down. "Maybe smaller sort of quasi-miniaturized boats that give the flavor of warships and that maybe accommodate ...

Here's how the Romans made naval battles in the Colosseum happen. MovieWeb. Gladiator 2's Naval ... The movie also includes scenes that bring to life additional uses of the Colosseum, notably ...

Welcome back to the “Gladiator” universe! This movie has everything—decapitations, a monkey senator, an inexplicable newspaper, and an epic naval battle performed inside the walls of the Colosseum..

Water spectacles in Rome go back to the first century BC. Areas, including the Colosseum, were flooded with water for staged fights. These mock naval battles, known as naumachia, began during ...

When Ridley Scott’s Gladiator 2 arrives in cinemas this week, some viewers may assume that the spectacular scenes of the Colosseum in Rome being flooded in order to host naval battles are merely ...

Modern historians are divided on whether naval battles actually took place in the Colosseum, despite there being ancient accounts of them. This 1721 engraving imagines one organized by Emperor ...

He battles with both the baboons and rhinos and conquers them both. “He’s getting a bit too powerful,” Mathieson explains. The emperors want to kill him off, so they devise a naval battle in ...