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Contemporanea Progetti in collaboration with the Colosseum, Rome, presents a traveling exhibition of more than 100 artifacts, many of them never displayed outside of Italy before, showing the world of the ancient Roman gladiators.

The homecoming proves to be far from sweet, and before one can say «Murphy's Law,» Maximus is captured by slave traders, who then sell him to Proximo (the late Oliver Reed), a trainer of Roman gladiators.

(Over the years Tarzan fought dinosaurs and Roman gladiators.)

Inspired and named after the Roman gladiators, who were powerful, gigantic fighters, the gladiator shoes symbolise strength, courage and bravery.

The flat and leather lace up sandals used to be worn back in the Roman times by Roman gladiators for its durability, comfort and support.

Sandbags have been used in strength training for hundreds of years (maybe even thousands: think Roman gladiators),...

Perhaps most notably, analysis of the bones of Roman Gladiators indicate they may have been vegetarians.

«Roman Gladiators ate a mostly vegetarian diet and drank a tonic of ashes after training.»

Roman gladiators ate a mostly vegetarian diet and drank ashes after training as a tonic.

His career highlights at S.I. include road trips in search of sports on the equator, the world's most dangerous sport and Roman gladiators as the first sports superstars, a lengthy meditation on Don King's hair, the second - ever descent of Africa's Zambezi River, a weighty essay on the 580 - pound sumo wrestler Konishiki, an investigation into the questionable around - the - world run by Robert Garside, a look inside the mind games at the 1987 world chess championship between Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov in Seville, Spain, three weeks in the Sahara covering the 2002 Paris - to - Dakar Rally, a trudge through Panama's Darien jungle retracing Vasco Núñez de Balboa's 1513 expedition, and a journey into the world of Jeopardy! His essay on George Steinbrenner and the New York Yankees» line of succession was called the «scoop of the year» in the 2008 Houghton - Mifflin collection The Best American Sports Writing.

Tell that to the tens of thousands of Christians that died in the Roman gladiator pits.

Set on three distinct maps; an Ancient Roman gladiator arena of The IX, the sinking Titanic in Voyage of Despair, and a remake of past Zombies maps in Blood of the Dead — featuring the original Zombies mode cast — there are plans to offer more variety in the off - the - wall game mode.

Even when he stacks the odds against Maximus — such as staging a fight against the only other undefeated Roman gladiator and putting a couple of hungry tigers in the ring as well — Maximus is still victorious and, in the process, becomes even more popular.

The shorter of the two is a usual bit of business that alternates between real insight and promo huckstering, but the other, Gladiator Games, is, as its Learning Channel - pedigree would imply, a genuinely informative look at the history of the ancient Roman gladiator business; only a small fraction of its one - hour running time is devoted to blatant movie marketing.

Not exact matches

For example, Christians were fed to lions and slaughtered by gladiators to tickle the delight of Romans of Nero's time.

Invisible Romans: Prostitutes, Outlaws, Slaves, Gladiators, Ordinary Men and Women... the Romans that History Forgot.

After studying Roman artwork, government documents, and fighting manuals, Tuck says gladiators were like modern - day athletes: highly trained, overpaid, well - fed sex symbols who were not expected to die.

[Photos: Gladiators of the Roman Empire]

A further research project is looking at the migration of gladiators, who often came from different parts of the Roman Empire to Ephesos.

In a study by the Department of Forensic Medicine at the MedUni Vienna in cooperation with the Department of Anthropology at the Institute of Forensic Medicine at the University of Bern, bones were examined from a gladiator cemetery uncovered in 1993 which dates back to the 2nd or 3rd century BC in the then Roman city of Ephesos (now in modern - day Turkey).

In fact, Hannam said, many societies have banned or limited the carving up of human corpses, from the ancient Greeks and Romans to early Europeans (that's why Galen was stuck dissecting animals and peering into gladiator wounds).

In the second century, an ethnically Greek Roman named Galen became doctor to the gladiators.

They may have been around since Roman times, but the gladiator sandals trend isn't going anywhere!

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I've professed my love for Roman sandals before (and of course, gladiator footwear has been having a moment for awhile -LSB-...]

There's just something about a thick gold necklace and gladiator sandals that reminds me of stereotypical ancient Greek or Roman goddesses.

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The movie, which officially opens on February 21, is about a slave turned gladiator finds himself in a race against time to save his true love, who has been betrothed to a corrupt Roman Senator.

In the opening scenes we see him leading his forces into battle against the barbarous Germans, who deserve everything they get for cutting off the head of the luckless Roman cavalryman despatched to issue a surrender ultimatum (like most mainstream movies, Gladiator is strong on audience emotion cues to nudge us in the right direction.

Synopsis: When a Roman general is betrayed and his family murdered by an emperor's corrupt son, he comes to Rome as a gladiator to seek revenge.

Maximus» incognito return to Rome to fight in the Colosseum (in front of the new emperor, Commodus), his quick rise to fame as the town's winningest warrior, and his big showdown with his old adversary fill the last act of Gladiator — as do a dazzling display of old - time Roman crowd scenes and stadium acts conjured with computerized magic that would have slayed old sandal - movie showmen like William Wyler and Cecil B. DeMille.

Taken by slavers and sold to Proximo (Oliver Reed), a master of gladiators, Maximus appears destined to end his days in the Roman equivalent of hick - town cockfighting.

In 79 A.D., Milo (Kit Harington), a slave turned gladiator, finds himself in a race against time to save his true love Cassia (Emily Browning), the beautiful daughter of a wealthy merchant who has been unwillingly betrothed to a corrupt Roman Senator.

«Gladiator,» starring Chow Yun - fat Picture pretty much the same movie — about a Roman general who's named Imperial Regent when Marcus Aurelius decides his own son isn't fit to become Emperor.

17 years later, the now grown - up Milo (Kit Harrington) is fighting in Britannia as a gladiator known only as The Celt when his skills in the arena impresses a Roman lanista and he's shipped off to the Italian city of Pompeii.

Gladiator depicts the Roman Empire at the height of its strength; it was the superpower of its day, either directly controlling or politically influencing a vast part of the known world.

So even in the historical setting, there are plenty of parallels to draw between the Roman Empire and the current - day United States; the particular events of Gladiator make the connection even more interesting.

And, Djimon Hounsou (Amistad), as a fellow gladiator, shares some exciting scenes with Crowe in the Roman Colosseum.

Crowe plays Maximus, a Roman general who becomes a powerful gladiator bent on destroying a treacherous Emperor.

He is ordered to be killed but manages to escape, ending up in the hands of slave trader Proximo (Oliver Reed), who pits him into the Roman Colosseum as a gladiator.

The season will open on the heels of the bloody escape from the House of Batiatus that concluded «Spartacus: Blood and Sand,» as the gladiator rebellion continues and begins to strike fear into the heart of the Roman Republic.

Director Ridley Scott has dealt with some epic stories whether it's the might of the Roman Empire and the obsession with gladiators, slavering...

Expecting a repeat of Gladiator «s obstinately counter-factual approach to Roman history, I was pleasantly surprised to find a much strong sense of the actuality of life in medieval England here (I watched the Director's Cut version on the Blu - Ray).

Trying to suck up to his Roman guest, Severus stages a re-creation of one of Corvus» military victories — yet another miniature — in the city's amphitheatre, pitting a small band of unarmored gladiators (representing the tribesmen Corvus massacred) against a larger group armed with military weapons and shields.

Nielsen's most recent credits include TV's «The Good Wife» and «The Following,» but she's perhaps most widely known for her role as the Roman queen in the Russell Crowe film, «Gladiator.»

Although we now know that it went on to be a massive box office hit and took home a sack of Oscars, the release of Gladiator, which was their most expensive film to date, represented the unimaginable: a $ 103 - million attempt to resurrect the long - dead ancient Roman epic, a once steadfast Hollywood genre that has been defunct since the mid-1960s when big hits like Ben - Hur (1959) and Spartacus (1960) were eventually overshadowed by colossal financial failures like Cleopatra (1963)(not to mention 1980's notorious big - budget hard - core epic Caligula).

, a compact look at the film's production; «Gladiator Games: The Roman Bloodsport» (50 min.)

Unable to take the injustices of slavery any longer, one of the slaves turns on the Roman captors, sparking a revolt among the slave population, forming an army of gladiator - warriors.

Who: Kit Harrington, Carrie - Anne Moss, Emily Browning and Kiefer Sutherland What: A slave turned gladiator finds himself in a race against time to save his true love, who has been betrothed to a corrupt Roman Senator.