Danny Dyer guest stars as Cynthia's new boyfriend Cassius, a friendly local gladiator ... charmed apart from Marcus who hopes that, one way or another, their relationship will be short-lived.

Beneath the starched togas and the pungent fug of gladiator ... Aurelius took lessons on how to be an emperor from his tutor Marcus Cornelius Fronto and from his adoptive father, the emperor ...

In the middle of the second century CE, the most powerful man in the Western world sat in the legionary fortress of Carnuntum ...

Maximus is a powerful Roman general, loved by the people and the aging Emperor, Marcus Aurelius ... general is captured and put into the Gladiator games until he dies. The only desire that ...

SUMMARY Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus succeeded to power together in 161 CE, as the adopted heirs of Antonius Pius. At the start of their reign, Verus conducted a successful war against the ...