WatchMojo. 25 Surprising Facts About Roman Gladiators You Never Knew. Posted: November 21, 2024 | Last updated: July 10, 2025. These gladiator facts will have you screaming at your local Emperor ...

To mark the opening of the Colosseum in 80 C.E., the Roman emperor Titus staged a staggering spectacle, flooding the arena ...

IX facts about Roman gladiators. We’re all aware of the bloody and barbaric world of the gladiators, thanks to old stories – and Russell Crowe. But who exactly were these mysterious warriors?

The Roman gladiatrix, though, is a well-kept secret. She has appeared in few pieces of media, among them a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it appearance in Ridley Scott’s “Gladiator” — the famous ...

Gladiator II picks up 16 years after Maximus’ death, This could be as early as 196 AD, but considering that Caracalla and Geta are enthroned, it more accurately matches 211 AD.

Artists have long depicted Roman gladiators battling it out against big cats as you can see in this mosaic created in A.D. 320 in Rome. However, there has never been any physical evidence to ...

Which is why it’s useful that “Gladiator II” is so obsessed with its own history and continuing both its visual legacy and the plotlines of the main characters in the original 2000 film.

At the start of Gladiator 2, Lucius defends an unnamed city in Numidia from a Roman attack commanded by Marcus Acacius, where we see his wife fight alongside several other female archers.

In Turkey, archaeologists unearthed a tomb seemingly belonging to a Roman gladiator of the third century B.C., but were surprised to find the remains of 12 individuals inside.