In back-to-back wars fought between A.D. 101 and 106, the emperor Trajan mustered tens of thousands of Roman troops ... the highly trained backbone of Rome’s war machine—occupy themselves ...

How often do you think about the Roman empire ... for Cabiria – a 1914 silent film set in ancient Rome at the time of the Second Punic War (against Carthage which lasted from 218 to 201BC).