The British Museum's “Gladiators of Britain,” now at the Grosvenor Museum, sheds fresh light on the realities of spectacle in the northern reaches of the Roman Empire. A tinned, bronze gladiator’s ...
In our modern-day world, we’re constantly inundated with different entertainment mediums – whether it’s a flashy Instagram post on your feed or the latest star-studded blockbuster to hit the theaters, ...
Dr. Racette-Campbell, a classics professor at the University of Winnipeg, is the author of “The Crisis of Masculinity in the Age of Augustus.” For a modern audience, it’s tempting to valorize the ...
Neither Gladiator nor its cinematic sequel is particularly concerned with historical fact. For one thing, the emperor Marcus Aurelius had no intention of restoring the republic. Gladiatorial contests ...
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