The speed and ferocity of the attack would have the enemy panicking. The Pyrrhic War (280-275 BC) was the test for the ancient Greek warfare tactics against the Roman legions. Pyrrhus, King of Epirus ...

Greek mythology has already inspired several games, but there are still many myths that could work as the backbone of a brand-new game.

Audiences are returning to the Colosseum with the release of Gladiator II, the latest in a subgenre that dates back to ...

Some ancient Greek and Roman philosophers supported vegetarianism. Sextius believed that killing animals for pleasure causes people to develop the habit of cruelty. Pythagoras believed that each soul ...

This article originally ran on January 11, 2020. It has been updated with additional films, including Steve McQueen’s new World War II-set movie Blitz. Speaking to Gene Siskel of the Chicago Tri ...

Writing in a letter to his friend Lucilius around AD62, the Roman philosopher Seneca outlined two arguments for vegetarianism. The first argument came from a Roman philosopher called Sextius whom ...

War movies are, by definition, not usually the lightest fare. If you’re looking to dig into something riveting on Thanksgiving, though, and think something about war might be the kind of ...

including Best Picture and Best Actor – leading to a resurgence in swords and sandals movies, though they were mostly concerned with Greek myths and legends. The sheer spectacle of Roman films ...

Just as the story of an epic poem is woven from characters and plot, so too the individual similes within an epic create a unique simile world. Like any other story, it is peopled by individual ...