to bring his ship/siege tower combos to attempt the world's most extra amphibious assault at the start of "Gladiator II." In our reality, Commodus' death in 192 CE led to a period known as the ...

True, he actually wasn’t stabbed to death in the ring by a hunky gladiator, but his demise was no less theatrical: Commodus’ dissolute reign was cut short in A.D. 192 when, after several ...

It also signifies that Commodus took everything from Maximus, with bloodlust being all that remains. However, he will use this persona as a gladiator, a man forced to fight to the death ...

A skeleton in England may have belonged to a gladiator who died fighting a large cat, possibly a lion, a new study finds.

His identity, age and cause of death were not immediately clear. Gladiator battles sometimes went to the death, but more often a heavily wounded fighter would surrender. Thousands of people ...

a slave and a gladiator who eventually takes down the corrupt Emperor Commodus before dying a noble death in the gladiator arena. In the first film, we briefly meet Lucilla’s young son ...

In the original Gladiator, Crowe’s Maximus is betrayed by Commodus, sold into slavery, and then returns to the Colosseum as a successful gladiator as he attempts to get revenge on the men that ...