What Lakiere calls a “criminally underused” setting and theme — ancient Rome! gladiator combat! — finds a perfect toehold in a very popular genre, the roguelike or roguelite, which has ...

ROME — This time of year in Rome, the evening sky is a marvel. Just before sunset, there among the cupolas, starlings mass by the hundreds of thousands, performing an aerial dance. They dip and ...

Anyone can read what you share. By Elisabetta Povoledo ROME — It’s a question that has long eluded an answer: where exactly was the beginning of the Appian Way, the ancient Roman thoroughfare ...

All roads lead to Rome, as the saying goes, and the most prestigious is the Appian Way, the strategic highway for the Roman Empire now hoping to become a UNESCO World Heritage Site. A paved road ...

By the sixth century B.C., some of Rome’s most famous institutions, from the Forum to the Senate, were in existence but even the most reputable historians—including Fabius, Livy, and Plutarch ...

2000's Gladiator follows Crowe's Maximus, a Roman general who is cast out by the emperor's son Commodus after Commodus murders his father, usurps the throne and has Maximus' family killed.

According to Deadline, Gladiator 2 is finally happening ... Now, Scott is bringing Rome back to the big screen in the film's first-ever sequel. The new film stars Paul Mescal, best known for ...