And what if he had been gifted the gladiator school once owned by Batiatus in return for aiding the Romans in killing Spartacus and putting an end to the slave rebellion?" Along with Tarabay ...

Their insurrection came to be known as the Third Servile War, or the Gladiators’ War. Leading his army of runaway slaves, which has been estimated to have reached 100,000 men, Spartacus defeated ...

The Roman appetite for victory had impact on millions of indigenous conquered peoples. The Palestinian Arabs are not mentioned in sources from that period because there were none. Opinion.

Even though it’s at least 1,500 years since the last Roman gladiators fought, thanks to TV and movies such as Spartacus (1960) and Gladiator (2000), audiences remain fascinated with them and the ...

The rebellious Thracian Spartacus, born and raised a slave, is sold to Gladiator trainer Batiatus. After weeks of being trained to kill for the arena, Spartacus turns on his owners and leads the ...

less politically intelligent than Kubrick's Spartacus, Gladiator knows its contemporary audience the way the cynical Caesars knew the Colosseum's. Check your mind at the turnstile as you enter ...

If you’re going full bore into swords-and-sandals shoutouts, you could do worse than summoning the ghost of a classic “Spartacus” moment. In “Gladiator II,” the gladiators’ overseer ...