Caracalla and Geta are based on real Roman Emperors, who were given power and tasked with ruling alongside one another. In ...

Caracalla used this meeting as a convenient opportunity to have Geta slaughtered by assassins, and became Rome's sole ruler. Yes, Caracalla wasn't the giggly syphilitic monkey lover he's portrayed ...

Geta was killed by Caracalla in the arms of his mother Julia Domna (212 AD), Plate 27, engraving by Persichini from a drawing by Pinelli, from The History of the Roman Emperors from Augustus to ...

Although Ridley Scott seems to portray them as twins, Caracalla and Geta were born 11 months apart. When their father, emperor Septimius Severus, died in early 211, he left his sons as co-emperors ...

Warning: this article contains mild spoilers. When Gladiator I was released in 2000, I was a high school Classics student and the <a targ ...

After Geta’s assassination, Caracalla did not have a general named Marcus Acacius (who never existed) conquer Numidia, but that is because Numidia was conquered by the Romans about 150 years ...

The drama in Ridley Scott’s Gladiator II, out Nov. 22, not only takes place in the Colosseum arena floor, but also in the stands, between the emperors Geta and his older brother, Caracalla ...

Just as Joaquin Phoenix played Commodus, an actual Roman emperor, in the 2000 hit starring Russell Crowe, the new characters Geta, Caracalla and Macrinus each did rule the empire.. Note: Gladiator ...

Portrayals of Geta and Caracalla are set to be unapologetically evil, with no room for redemption or salvation. Gladiator II remains a massive question mark hanging over the fall season.

It’s clear Caracalla and Geta had an intense rivalry. This was kept in check while their father Septimius Severus was emperor. But once he died, their relationship devolved into outright hostility.