As Gladiator 2 – or II to be ... was the first emperor to stage mock maritime fights in Rome, which were called naumachita, and the Colosseum had the capabilities to do this.
who ruled from 79 to 81 AD (Gladiator 2 is set in 211 AD), oversaw the construction of the Colosseum and, according to the historian Suetonius, its opening featured the arena basin being submerged in ...