The Emperor of Rome was already the most powerful ... In 12 AD he made himself Pontifex Maximus, the chief priest of Rome and head of the Collegium Pontificum, the highest priests in the land.

Maximus. The ending of Gladiator 2 leaves it somewhat ambiguous whether Lucius becomes the emperor of Rome. It doesn’t explicitly show a coronation or Lucius taking control of the administration ...

The first film, which premiered in 2000 and won 5 Oscars, followed a Maximus Decimus Meridius (Russell Crowe), an honorable Roman general whose wife and child are killed when a new emperor takes ...

The Roman general is called Maximus (Russell Crowe), a professional soldier who leads his men by enthusiastic example. In the melancholy calm after the battle, the ageing emperor Marcus Aurelius ...

Maximus is a powerful Roman general, loved by the people and the aging Emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Before his death, the Emperor chooses Maximus to be his heir over his own son, Commodus ...

Magnus Maximus was a usurper against the Romans in ... of the Britons following the death of Octavius, during the reign of Emperor Constantine I. The Mabinogion tells of Macsen Wledig marrying ...