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| | Emperor Commodus |
 | | The man believed to have organised these executions on Commodus' behalf was Marcus Aurelius Cleander, a freedman having once been brought to Rome as a Phrygian slave. | | | Entertaining a harem of, so it is said, 300 girls and women and 300 boys, some of which might have been kidnapped, he indulged in lengthy orgies and revelled in decadent luxuries. | | | Cleander now was placed in the vacant position of praetorian prefect and became not merely Commodus' closest advisor, but began to run government on the emperor's behalf as Perennis had done. |
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http://www.roman-empire.net/highpoint/commodus.html
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| | Commodus |
| | When two women in Commodus’ household, his wife Crispina and his sister Lucilla were accused of hatching a plot to murder him, Commodus had the two ladies banished to a lonely prison on an island. | | | The arena was the place for criminals, condemned prisoners of war, and professional gladiators (considered a rather seedy, lower class occupation). | | | After plots against his life were discovered, Commodus began a reign of terror. |
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http://www.murphsplace.com/gladiator/commodus.html
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| | The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire IV |
| | Whilst Commodus was immersed in blood and luxury, he devolved the detail of the public business on Perennis; a servile and ambitious minister, who had obtained his post by the murder of his predecessor, but who possessed a considerable share of vigour and ability. | | | Yet Commodus was not, as he has been represented, a tiger born with an insatiate thirst of human blood, and capable, from his infancy, of the most inhuman actions. | | | The young prince and his profligate favourites revelled in all the licence of sovereign power; but his hands were yet unstained with blood; and he had even displayed a generosity of sentiment, which might perhaps have ripened into solid virtue. |
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http://www.ccel.org/g/gibbon/decline/volume1/chap4.htm
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| | Roman Emperors - DIR commodus |
| | Commodus' complete identification with Hercules can be seen as an attempt to solidify his claim as new founder of Rome, which he now called the Colonia Lucia Annia Commodiana. | | | If Eusebius of Caesarea [[29]] is to be believed, the reign of Commodus inaugurated a period of numerous conversions to Christianity. | | | [[17]] The slayer of wild beasts, Hercules, was the mythical symbol of Commodus' rule, as protector of the Empire. |
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http://www.roman-emperors.org/commod.htm
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| | Commodus is sitting across the chamber, Lucius at his knee. | | | COMMODUS Nonetheless, your political acumen is, as always, unerring. | | | COMMODUS We've been reading about the great Julius and his adventures in Egypt. |
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http://www.angelfire.com/movies/ridleyscott/script/gladiator_seconddraft.txt
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| | Roman Empire In Turmoil 180-285 by Sanderson Beck |
| | After Commodus was assassinated, Laetus and Eclectus took Helvius Pertinax, 66, to the praetorian camp, where he promised the guards a donative of 12,000 sesterces each. | | | Burrus, the brother-in-law of Commodus, was killed by Cleandar for reporting to the Emperor what Cleandar was doing, as were several for defending Burrus. | | | A conspiracy in 182 was given away when Pompeianus approached Commodus with a sword saying, "This dagger the Senate sends."1 Pompeianus and four conspirators were executed. |
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http://www.san.beck.org/AB9-RomanTurmoil180-285.html
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| | Commodus glares at Lucilla as she trails off in laughter. | | | Commodus looks in the dumps, but then leans out. | | | WAGON Commodus steps down and pulls his cape up against the bitter cold. |
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http://www.angelfire.com/movies/ridleyscott/script/Gladiator_FirstDraft.txt
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Commodus |
| | There were many Christians at the court of Commodus and in the person of Marcia, the concubine or morganatic wife of the emperor, they had a powerful advocate through whose kind offices on one occasion many Christian prisoners were released from the mines in Sardinia. | | | No edicts were issued against the Christians who, though persecuted by the proconsuls in some provinces, enjoyed a period of respite and comparative immunity from pursuit. | | | Commodus was murdered by strangling, one of the conspirators being Marcia. |
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http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04166a.htm
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| | Commodus and the Delators |
| | Pertinax, successor to Commodus, condemned his predecessor's memory. | | | These secret informers are uncomfortably similar to the imminent existence of organized U.S. government informants operating under the badge of the Terrorism Information and Prevention System (TIPS). | | | Commodus, in Anno Domini 183, was returning from the amphitheater, via a narrow and secret passage, to his palace. |
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http://www.shout.net/~bigred/Commodus.htm
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| | Gladiator History: Commodus |
| | His sister Annia Lucilla part of a failed plot to assassinate Commodus in 182 AD, exiled and eventually executed. | | | This final madness was enough for another conspiracy to emerge led by Praetorian prefect Quintus Aemilius Laetus. | | | Soon after, Commodus stopped taking interest in the day-to-day matters of government and left it to his Praetorian prefects. |
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http://www.patriotresource.com/gladiator/history/commodus.html
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| | Commodus to Alexander Severus - History for Kids! |
| | Even though the plot failed, Commodus became very suspicious (like Domitian again!) and had a lot of Senators and other people killed. | | | One plan he had to kill some of his closest friends backfired when they killed him instead in 192 AD. | | | But Commodus, like the later Julio-Claudians or like Domitian, had grown up at court, and liked partying more than he liked fighting or working at running the Empire. |
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http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/romans/history/severans.htm
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| | Commodus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Few years later (182 according to Cassius Dio, possibly 187), Crispina was accused of adultery (or treachery), exiled in Capri and later murdered (183 or 192). | | | Commodus was extremely proud of his physical prowess, disdaining the more philosophic inclinations of his father. | | | Later, Commodus would wage wars of his own against the Germans, often winning partial victories yet claiming the honours for a full victory in the Roman Senate. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodus
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| | In fact, according to his contemporary Dio Cassius, Commodus was notorious for killing many "contestants" in his private gladiatorial bouts. | | | Commodus was a megalomaniac who believed he was the reincarnation of Hercules, and demanded that the citizens of Rome worship him as such. | | | Commodus was also known to dress as if he were Hercules, or as a gladiator, and then parade himself through the streets of Rome. |
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http://www.geocities.com/ttnewsletter/072800.htm
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| | Gladiator Characters: Commodus |
| | Commodus soon finds out that the gladiator is Maximus. | | | Marcus Aurelius disapproves of his son and blames himself for how Commodus turned out. | | | In order to secure his place on the throne, Commodus orders Maximus killed when Maximus refuses to swear allegience to his new emperor. |
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http://www.patriotresource.com/gladiator/characters/commodus.html
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| | Commodus on Encyclopedia.com |
| | Many plots to assassinate him failed, but eventually, on the order of his advisers, he was strangled by a wrestler. | | | COMMODUS [Commodus] (Lucius Aelius Aurelius Commodus), 161-192, Roman emperor (180-192), son and successor of Marcus Aurelius. | | | In 180, reversing his father's foreign policy, he concluded peace with the German and the Sarmatian tribes and returned to his licentious pleasures in Rome. |
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http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/C/Commodus.asp
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| | Gladiator, The Story Behind The Movie - CHAPTER 7 - THUMBS DOWN FOR COMMODUS |
| | Laetus, a highly placed Roman, had engineered a conspiracy to make sure the gladiator-Emperor would never perform again. | | | Laetus, the man who planned the conspiracy, saved Commodus from being mutilated and dragged through the streets of Rome with a hook. | | | But, the damage Commodus had caused was incalculable. |
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http://www.lawbuzz.com/tyranny/gladiator/gladiator_ch7.htm
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| | Stoicism: Marcus Aurelius. The Stoic emperor |
| | He was succeeded by Pertinax who attempted to reform the corruption Commodus had introduced, and for his pains was murdered by his own guard. | | | He was assassinated as a result of a plot by his household staff, who first tried to poison him, and when that failed, had him strangled by an athlete. | | | Commodus was, so it was rumoured, the son of one of the gladiators whom Marcus' wife Faustina took for lovers. |
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http://members.aol.com/Heraklit1/marcus.htm
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| | Commodus |
| | M COMM ANT P FEL AVG BRIT PP Nearing the end of the period before Commodus abandoned his father's praenomen and returned to Lucius is this coin from 191 AD. | | | This is an interesting coin type but really not much of a specimen. | | | Coins dated to this year dated to TRP V can be separated by Commodus' assumption of the praenomen Marcus (M) in place of his original Lucius (L) occurring at the death of his father. |
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http://dougsmith.ancients.info/comm.html
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| | A Review of "Gladiator" |
| | His son Commodus – the movie’s villain – settled for peace after his father’s death. | | | It says that the emperor Marcus Aurelius died in 180 A.D. The movie shows that his son Commodus re-opened the gladiatorial games; his father had closed them. | | | In fact, he had elevated Commodus to official positions, beginning when the boy was five years old. |
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http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north39.html
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| | (107) Commodus |
| | The reverse depicts Tellus (Mother Earth); since she has been "stabilized," this image can be viewed as sending the perhaps much-needed message that foreign affairs are in the emperor's allegedly capable hands. | | | He was assassinated in A.D. The obverse portrait belongs to the type of Commodus' later portraits; he is in his late twenties and has a full and detailed beard. | | | Marcus Aurelius' son Commodus was born in A.D. He held the title Caesar from A.D. 166 until A.D. 177, when he became co-emperor with Aurelius. |
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http://www.lawrence.edu/dept/art/buerger/catalogue/107.html
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| | ABC-Dir: Commodus |
| | Information about Commodus based on the writings of Roman historian Cassius Dio. | | | Compares the life of Commodus from history and from the movie Gladiator. | | | Details about the life and reign of this Roman Emperor with an emphasis on his murder. |
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http://www.abc-directory.com/view/commodus
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| | Galen [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] |
| | For many years it has been held that Galen remained in Roman society until his death around 199-200 (based upon the Suda Lexicon written around 1000); however, new research by Vivian Nutton has persuasively set the date of Galen's death much later. | | | After a couple of years in obscurity, Galen was recalled by the Roman Emperors Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus to serve the army in their war against the Germans. | | | When the plague hit Rome, Galen was made personal physician to Marcus Aurelius and Aurelius' son, Commodus. |
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http://www.iep.utm.edu/g/galen.htm
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| | < Ambitious ... |
| | The only approved fanlisting for the character, Commodus, of the movie Gladiator. |
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http://fan.little-secret.net/commodus
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