# @Penn State University on YouTube

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://youtube.com/watch?v=dOJViAWoUCY
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/29961303-Penn-State-University-youtube
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- **Posted:** 2024-11-26T23:26:10.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Penn State University (@pennstate) — https://gondola.cc/pennstate

## Caption

Did the Romans really flood the Roman Colosseum and bring in sharks to feast on the defeated? Did gladiators historically contend with armored rhinoceroses? 

Find out what's historic spectacle and what's Hollywood myth as two Penn State professors react to scenes from Gladiator II (released Nov. 2024).  

00:30 - Was it possible to flood the Colosseum?

01:14 - Did gladiators really ride or domesticate rhinoceroses?

02:05 - What did thumbs down or thumbs up mean in ancient Roman culture?

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Dr. Mathias Hanses is Melvin and Rosalind Jacobs Endowed Fellow in the Humanities and Associate Professor of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies, African Studies, and African American Studies in the Penn State College of the Liberal Arts. He works on Latin literature (including Roman drama); Africana receptions of ancient Greece and Rome; and race, status, and difference in the ancient Roman world. 

https://cams.la.psu.edu/people/mkh5452/

Jake Nabel is the Tombros Early Career Professor of Classical Studies, Assistant Professor of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies, and the Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Penn State College of the Liberal Arts, Department of Classics and Mediterranean Studies. He is a historian of ancient Rome and its relations with the empires of pre-Islamic Iran. His research centers on interstate affairs between the early Principate and the Parthian empire, Rome’s imperial peer on the Iranian plateau, Latin literature, the Hellenistic East, and Sasanian history. He draws on both Greco-Roman literary texts and Near Eastern sources to promote the fuller integration of ancient Persia into studying the classical Mediterranean.

https://cams.la.psu.edu/people/jtn5201/


The College of the Liberal Arts is home to nearly 150 undergraduate majors, minors, integrated undergraduate-graduate degrees (IUGs), associate degrees, and certificates: https://la.psu.edu/

#pennstate #romanempire #gladiator #history

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| Name | Username | Profile | Role |
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| Penn State University | @pennstate | https://gondola.cc/pennstate | University |
| Liz Fuhrmann | @ElizabethAFuhrmann | https://gondola.cc/ElizabethAFuhrmann | Social Media Strategist |

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