MacMullen was nearing 80 when I met him, still an active outdoorsman, and at the time considered the greatest living historian of the Roman empire, an honorific bestowed by the American Historical ...

Set in Rome, circa 209AD, 16 years after the demise of Emperor Marcus Aurelius and Maximus Decimus Meridius in Gladiator, the Roman Empire is now ruled by the tyrannical Emperors Caracalla and Geta.

It worked. Scipio also succeeded in detaching the powerful Numidian chieftain Masinissa from his Carthaginian alliance. Numidian cavalry fought bravely for the Romans at Zama in 202, and thanks to ...

Ancient Numidians are often depicted as having very very dark african skin. But their empire was up to the North of the continent where skin tones are often a lot lighter. I’m no schollar, and brief ...

The ability to generate a lot of towns and capitalize on the production bonuses from Augustus makes for a highly efficient empire. Augustus also benefits from Carthage’s unique units like the Numidian ...

French critics were particularly appalled by the film, with one reviewer describing it as “Barbie and Ken under the Empire”. The imperial accent isn’t just confined to popular blockbusters.

But on close consideration, the statement is not that of the film’s producers but of late-empire Rome, in whose hubristic imagination the 480 BCE Greek victory over the Persians morphed into a ...

Urbicus was from the North African region of Numidia, which is the setting of the opening scenes of ‘Gladiator II.’ He served as a Roman governor of Britain in the 2 nd century CE, an important ...

But, historically, by AD200 Numidia had been a thoroughly integrated part of the Roman empire for over 250 years. First as part of the province of Africa Nova, and later as a province in its own ...

The movie echoes the viciousness and might of the Roman Empire’s reputation with its brutal fight scenes and cruel characters. Hanno is a strong character who is impossible not to root for, even ...