Staiga mirus romėnų imperatoriui Markui Aurelijui, jo protingą ir ištikimą generolą Maksimą neteisėtai įkalina ir gladiatorių kovoms nuteisia klastingas Marko sūnus Komodas. Tapęs naujuoju imperatorium Komodas bijo, kad Maksimas, naudodamasis savo valdžia bei geru vardu, gali nuversti jį ir pats užimti sostą. Tačiau Maksimas greitai pelno šlovę ir kaip gladiatorius. Jis tikisi atkurti tikėjimą užmirštomis vertybėmis ir nugalėti klestinčią korupciją.
The Roman Holidays is a Hanna-Barbera animated television series that was broadcast in 1972 on NBC. It ran for 13 episodes before being cancelled. Very similar in theme to both The Flintstones and The Jetsons, The Roman Holidays brought a look at "modern-day" life in Ancient Rome, around 63 AD, as seen through the eyes of Augustus "Gus" Holiday and his family. The opening showed a chariot traffic jam and a TV showing football on Channel "IV" An Ancient Roman setting was actually one of the ideas that Hanna-Barbera considered as they were working to create The Flintstones.
In 90 A.D., ancient Rome played host to a sporting spectacle that attracted crowds three times the size of the Colosseum?s gladiator games: chariot racing. Every week, 150,000 fans packed the massive Circus Maximus, not just to cheer on the speed, fury, and danger of the races, but to witness the champion charioteer, Flavius Scorpus. Examine his improbable rise from young slave to arguably the most successful competitor in the sport?s history.
