One of the surprises in comics last year was Valiant's Roman-era murder mystery Britannia. Peter Milligan (Shade, The Changing Man) and Juan Jose Ryp (Black Summer) combined to tell a truly unique ...

Looking to build upon its current programming slate of strong female-led series (Supergirl, Jane the Virgin and iZombie, for example), The CW is developing a one-hour dramatic series based on author ...

Rome is a magnificent, tangled urban forest, rich in art, culture, and history. The city has many layers — modern, Baroque, Renaissance, Christian. But let’s face it: For most of us, Rome is Caesar, ...

Save for a few wisps of time-worn text and a bit of sharp-edged stone, little is left on this earth that tells the gladiatrix’s story. Thought to have battled during the first and second centuries C.E ...

Defined by the men in their lives, women in ancient Rome were valued mainly as wives and mothers. Although some were allowed more freedom than others, there was always a limit, even for the daughter ...

Actor Nick Tarabay delivers a line in the original Spartacus series on Starz that stuck with creator Steven S. DeKnight for more than a decade. Tarabay's character, Ashur, an ambitious, unpredictable ...

Welcome back to the arena. There have been some changes while you were gone. The trailer now shows Ashur, a former slave, struggling to be accepted by high society. So he decides to make his mark by ...

Welcome back to the arena. There have been some changes while you were gone. Spartacus: House of Ashur dropped its first trailer during Saturday's Comic-Con panel, showing off Nick E. Tarabay's return ...