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    Marcia Aurelia Ceionia Demetrias (died 193) was the alleged mistress (182–193) and one of the assassins of Roman Emperor Commodus. Marcia was likely to...
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    of the army. The title suggests Commodus was present at his father's victory over the Marcomanni. On 20 January 175, Commodus entered the College of Pontiffs...
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  • include: Queen Marcia, legendary monarch of Britain Marcia (mistress of Commodus) Marcia (mother of Trajan) Marcia (wife of Cato) Marcia (vestal), Roman...
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  • Caenis (category Mistresses of ancient Roman royalty)
    the introduction to that anthology. List of slaves Claudia Acte Galeria Lysistrate Marcia (mistress of Commodus) "Companion: Caenis". feminaeromanae.org...
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  • Claudia Acte (category Mistresses of ancient Roman royalty)
    as a slave to Poppaea. Antonia Caenis Galeria Lysistrate Marcia (mistress of Commodus) List of enslaved people Cassius Dio, Roman History 61.7.1 Tacitus...
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  • Galeria Lysistrate (category Mistresses of ancient Roman royalty)
    during the later reign of Pius. Claudia Acte Antonia Caenis Marcia (mistress of Commodus) Anise K. Strong: Prostitutes and Matrons in the Roman World...
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    Pertinax (category 2nd-century Roman governors of Syria)
    carried out by the Praetorian prefect Quintus Aemilius Laetus, Commodus' mistress Marcia, and his chamberlain Eclectus. After the murder had been carried...
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  • December 31 – Emperor Commodus alarms the Senate, by appearing dressed as a gladiator for his new consulship on January 1. His mistress Marcia finds her name...
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    Bruttia Crispina (category Commodus)
    was Roman empress from 178 to 191 as the consort of Roman emperor Commodus. Her marriage to Commodus did not produce an heir, and her husband was instead...
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  • The Two Gladiators (category Cultural depictions of Commodus)
    Commodus, an arrogant thug who enjoys fighting as an amateur gladiator. Rome soon begins to suffer from Commodus' excesses, and his mistress Marcia tries...
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  • Marcus Aurelius Cleander (category Year of birth unknown)
    calling for his head. At the urging of his mistress Marcia, Commodus had Cleander beheaded and his son killed. All of this likely had transpired on 19 April...
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  • For an explanation of this practice, see filiation. Lucius Ceionius Commodus, consul in AD 78. Lucius Ceionius (L. f.) Commodus, consul in AD 106. Lucius...
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  • Marcus Ummidius Quadratus Annianus (category Roman governors of Africa)
    mother's death, Quadratus took a mistress, a Greek freedwoman named Marcia, who would later become the emperor Commodus' mistress. Following his consulship,...
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    Marcus Aurelius (category Augurs of the Roman Empire)
    Antoninus (161–165), elder twin brother of Commodus Lucius Aurelius Commodus Antoninus (Commodus) (161–192), twin brother of Titus Aurelius Fulvus Antoninus,...
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    Pope Callixtus I (category Year of birth unknown)
    of Sardinia. He was released with other Christians at the request of Hyacinthus, a eunuch presbyter, who represented Marcia, the favourite mistress of...
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    Lucius Verus (category People of the Roman–Parthian Wars)
    Lucius Ceionius Commodus on 15 December 130, Verus was the first-born son of Avidia and Lucius Aelius Caesar, the first adopted son and heir of Emperor Hadrian...
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    instead. The period of the "Five Good Emperors" was brought to an end by the reign of Commodus from 180 to 192. Commodus was the son of Marcus Aurelius,...
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  • December 31 – Emperor Commodus alarms the Senate, by appearing dressed as a gladiator for his new consulship on January 1. His mistress Marcia finds her name...
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    under Commodus; according to the Historia Augusta, he held that appointment for only five days. Marcia Aurelia Ceionia Demetrias, the mistress of Quadratus...
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  • co-ruled with Marcus Aurelius from 161 to 169 and Gaius Avidius Ceionius Commodus. Her cognomen Fabia reveals that her father was related to the gens Fabia...
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  • sweetness of temper". In his elder years, he had a mistress, of whom he expresses gratitude that "I wasn’t raised by my grandfather's mistress for longer...
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  • and women of the imperial families. It was the feminine form of Augustus. In the third century, Augustae could also receive the titles of Mater Senatus...
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    frustrated, engaged in a number of affairs. Romanos tolerated these and took a mistress himself. In 1033 Zoe became enamoured of a low-born servant called Michael...
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    Domitia Longina (category Year of birth uncertain)
    however, with Herodian attributing a similar tale to the assassination of Commodus. According to Jones, the evidence suggests that Domitia remained devoted...
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    Antoninus Pius, or Faustina II, wife of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Commodus was named co-emperor in 177, at the age of 16. Caracalla was named co-emperor...
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  • the Roman Republic, vol. 3, pp. 194–195 Aelius Lampridius, "The Life of Commodus", 11. Realencyclopädie der Classischen Altertumswissenschaft, "Servilius"...
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  • list of officially named craters in the Solar System as named by IAU's Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature. As of 2017, there is a total of 5...
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    to poison him. He then married his mistress Theodote, which was technically an act of adultery. Patriarch Tarasios of Constantinople only offered a light...
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    attempted usurpations (an average of one usurpation or attempt about every four years). From the murder of Commodus in 192 until the fifth century, there...
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    conspiracy was unsuccessful, he became a part of island's folklore. Marcia, mistress of Roman emperor Commodus. Marcius Agrippa (late 2nd and early 3rd century)...
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