The naumachiae seem mostly to have been recreations of famous historical engagements – in the movie, it's the Battle of Salamis, waged between the Greeks and the Persian Empire in 480 BCE. Emperor ...
It wasn’t a shark, or a whale, or a leopard seal ... some sensible (alligator or crocodile) and some attempts at jokes (saber-tooth mermaid, killer cow). It was clear that whatever died had ...