In a dense forest in southern Italy, archaeologists have discovered a Roman wall, over two millennia old, constructed to halt the infamous rebel gladiator Spartacus and his army. Built by the Roman ...

The world wide success of the film Gladiator has generated a renewed interested in Ancient Rome and the role of gladiators. Any inquiry into this question has to raise the spectre of the slave war ...

Although it was not evident at the time, the 1960 film Spartacus was at the center of one of those historical nexuses Lenin had in mind. The story began in 73 BC, when a group of 78 escaped Roman ...

The legend of Spartacus has inspired so many fanciful retellings, it's easy to lose track of what actually happened back in 73 BC. In The... 'Spartacus War': Story Of The Real-Life Gladiator The ...

When Spartacus hit theaters in 1960, audiences expected another grand sword-and-sandals spectacle with Roman armies, gladiator clashes and chariots thundering across the plains. What they didn't ...

When the Australian Ballet premieres its new production of Khachaturian’s ballet Spartacus this week, it will be another moment in an extraordinary story of rehabilitation. Spartacus, a lowly ...