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Ancient Rome maintains a grip ... and she owned buildings and a bathhouse in Pompeii just before the city’s destruction in A.D. 79. (Roman Empress Agrippina was a master strategist.

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Scott is on more familiar turf in “Gladiator II,” which Paramount Pictures will release on November 22. He is back in ancient ...