Centurion Valerius Rufus goes up against the unpopular Emperor Domitian (reigned 81 to 96); both Rufus and his fiancée, Lucilla are sentenced to be immersed in a cauldron of molten lead; Valerius's friends come to his aid
Dacia (today's Romania) and Domitian's Dacian War; border defense against raids of Moesia from Dacia in 86–87
Roman Emperor Trajan (reigned 98-117) has just murdered all the local men of Dacia and holds a military stronghold in what will later become Romania
Sophia Loren; troubles under Emperor Commodus (who ruled from 180 to 192)
C. 260-273, Septimia 47 obia, wife of the assassinated Septimius Odaenathus, a Prince of Palmyra and governor of province of Syria, takes over, rebels against Rome and establishes short-lived Palmyrene Empire
Roman soldiers capture Attalus (a.k.a. Hercules) and he become a great gladiator; he falls in love with Velida, the daughter of Emperor Gallienus (reigned 260-268), but a nobleman wants her for himself
Davus, a slave of the philosopher Hypatia of Alexandria, falls in love with her; she was killed in 415 by a Christian mob involved in anti-Jewish antics
Made for TV movie; 430, Augustine tells his own story and that of Rome's too
