Everything Hollywood got wrong about the gladiators of Rome
Here’s a rundown of all the historical inaccuries in classics like ‘Gladiator’, ‘Spartacus’, etc. Anyone who has seen films like Mervyn LeRoy’s Quo Vadis, Stanley Kubrick’s Spartacus or Gladiator by Ridley Scott is familiar with the images of the Roman fighters destined for either glory or death as they entertained crowds with violent combats. Maria Weiss, the director of the Archaeological Museum Hamburg where a new exhibition titled […]