Long-awaited: the new Gladiator film number II is in cinemas. But this isn’t a movie review, but rather a slightly different take on the era depicted. Author and natural scientist Christian Mähr explains who Emperor Caracalla was and why the man became so famous – not just because of his fierce appearance…
It’s nice that trailers of new films can be found on the Internet these days. This saves me having to go to the cinema. Almost a quarter of a century ago this didn’t exist as far as I know, so I unsuspectingly went to the cinema to see ‘Gladiator’. I didn’t have to do that this time because the first few seconds of the YouTube trailer show fireballs from exploding projectiles on an old city wall. Sorry, nothing exploded in Europe in the late second century – there was a single firearm in late antiquity, the infamous ‘Greek fire’, but it wasn’t invented until 500 years later and was used by the Eastern Roman Empire to to repel enemies at sea To hold the body, a kind of flamethrower.
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