Gladiator

PEOPLE

One historian said the mad Commodus turned Rome “from a kingdom of gold to one of iron and rust”—yet few people know this brutal emperor’s dark history.

PEOPLE

History remembers Marcus Aurelius as one of the Roman Empire's "good" emperors—but in Ancient Rome, even the good guys did some pretty disturbing things.

THINGS

My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions, loyal servant to the true emperor...



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