When Marcus Aurelius (Richard Harris) attempts to name Maximus as his successor, Maximus immediately and profusely turns him down. As with many great epics, the essence of Gladiator's story comes ...

Beneath the starched togas and the pungent fug of gladiator sweat there are real ... strong and masculine emperor Marcus Aurelius to discover a much more complicated, naïve, flirtatious and ...

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 ...

Four of the coins date to the reign of Marcus Aurelius, who was played by Richard Harris in the first Gladiator film, with the earliest dating from AD166 (above) A hoard of 16 silver Roman coins ...

"Gladiator II" is a messy sequel to Ridley ... picks up approximately a decade and a half after the death of Marcus Aurelius (Richard Harris), the Roman emperor who dreamed of a better empire ...

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.

Rome, circa 209 A.D. Sixteen years after the demise of Emperor Marcus Aurelius and Maximus Decimus Meridius in Gladiator (2000), the Roman Empire is now ruled by the tyrannical Emperors Caracalla ...