'Master and Commander,' '12 Years a Slave,' 'Lawrence of Arabia' If you don’t know your past, you don’t know your future. It may be a cliché, but it’s true. Luckily, the movies are always here to tell ...

The Eternal City of Rome, resting regally on its Seven Hills, ancient in its vestment, glorious in its legacy, possesses a sacred aura that has taken many a soul's breath away. For over two millennia, ...

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 ...

Gladiator is about a general-turned-gladiator named Maximus (Russell Crowe), who was created just for the film. He is likely a fictionalized combination of the historical general Marcus Nonius ...

For thousands of spectators packed into amphitheatres such as the Colosseum, entertainment also meant witnessing real people ...

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, ...

If you don’t know your past, you don’t know your future. It may be a cliché, but it’s true. Luckily, the movies are always here to tell us about the way things used to be. Are they always accurate? No ...