The original Gladiator opened the floodgates of 00s epics with its success, but which scenes entertained audiences the most?

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jean-Simon Berthelemy's 1773 painting 'Death of a Gladiator.' Heritage Art/Heritage Images via Getty Images The release of Ridley ...

On a recent Tuesday I took the 1 train up to 133rd Street to experience an increasingly popular pastime for New Yorkers: armored fighting. The ancient form of entertainment has fallen out of the ...

(CN) — A skeleton found in a Roman cemetery in York offers the first physical evidence of a gladiator fighting — and dying — in combat with a lion, or large cat. The research, published Wednesday in ...

A Roman oil lamp shows two female gladiators fighting like men—strong visual proof women fought. An ordinary Roman oil lamp shows two gladiators with unmistakably female features, fighting in the same ...

The retiarius was a newer class of gladiator. Fighting without a helmet, he was an everyman, a simple fisherman. -So, he has two weapons, which are pretty iconic. He's got a trident over here and a ...

Gladiators enter the arena where only the strongest will survive.

Gladiators only fought 2-3 times annually, spending most of their time training intensively in gladiator schools called ludus. Their diet was predominantly vegetarian, featuring barley-based meals ...

With the release of Ridley Scott's "Gladiator II," audiences will be plunged back into the cinematic excitement of the Roman amphitheater so vividly captured in its predecessor, "Gladiator." Scott's ...