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    reign, Commodus entrusted the management of affairs to his palace chamberlain and praetorian prefects, namely Saoterus, Perennis and Cleander. Commodus was...
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  • disarms Commodus during the duel. After Quintus and the Praetorians refuse to help him, Commodus unsheathes a hidden knife; Maximus overpowers Commodus and...
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    adoptive brother Lucius Verus and an elder sister to later emperor Commodus. Commodus ordered Lucilla's execution after a failed assassination and coup...
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  • Commodus (AD 161–192) was the 17th Roman emperor. It may also refer to: Commodus as Hercules, marble portrait sculpture of Commodus Lucius Ceionius Commodus...
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    predators of T. commodus include bats and ground beetles. The key to crickets' survival when targeted by predators is detection. T. commodus mostly rely on...
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    Commodus as Hercules, also known as The Bust of Commodus as Hercules, is a marble portrait sculpture created sometime in early 192 AD. It is housed in...
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    and a second consulship as ordinarius with the emperor Commodus as his colleague. When Commodus' actions became increasingly erratic in the early 190s...
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    The political unrest began with the murder of Emperor Commodus on New Year's Eve 192. Once Commodus was assassinated, Pertinax was named emperor, but immediately...
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    Eclectus. In AD 182, Lucilla, the sister of Commodus, convinced Marcia to join in a plot with Quadratus to kill Commodus. The plot was discovered and both Lucilla...
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  • assassinate her brother Commodus. John Oates opines that he and his father Tiberius had retired to their country estates in 180 when Commodus ascended to the...
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  • Narcissus (wrestler) (category Commodus)
    assassinated the Roman emperor Commodus in 192 AD. Narcissus was employed as a wrestling partner and personal trainer to Commodus in order to train him for...
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    of his son Commodus as heir was considered to be an unfortunate choice and the beginning of the Empire's decline. With the murder of Commodus in 192, the...
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    Secutor (section Commodus)
    Emperor were considered a mark of fortitude. Commodus' opponents always surrendered after they were bested. Commodus never killed his gladiatorial adversaries...
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  • of the emperor Commodus and dedicated in 183, in the fourth year of Commodus' reign. It included a gymnasium. Historia Augusta, Commodus 17; Chron. 147;...
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  • Praetorian Prefect under the Roman emperor Commodus. Perennis exercised an outsized influence over Commodus and was the effective ruler of the Roman Empire...
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    Fulvus Antoninus (161–165), elder twin brother of Commodus Lucius Aurelius Commodus Antoninus (Commodus) (161–192), twin brother of Titus Aurelius Fulvus...
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  • Roman Empire (TV series) (category Cultural depictions of Commodus)
    Commodus. Rome, a fictional account of the fall of the Republic. The Fall of the Roman Empire, another fictionalized telling of the life of Commodus....
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  • his reign, as he accompanied Commodus in his chariot when he made his ceremonial entry into Rome on 22 October 180. Commodus placed him in a high position...
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  • The Fall of the Roman Empire (film) (category Cultural depictions of Commodus)
    subjects; this disqualifies his son Commodus, who prefers to rule by force. Instead, Aurelius decides to nominate Livius, Commodus' closest friend and the lover...
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    Bruttia Crispina (category Commodus)
    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 succeeded...
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  • Cleander fled to Commodus for protection, but the mob followed him calling for his head. At the urging of his mistress Marcia, Commodus had Cleander beheaded...
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    scheming henchman of Commodus. At the end of the movie, Julianus and Pescennius Niger, played by Douglas Wilmer, another crony of Commodus, compete against...
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  • in Tidelands. He also played the main character of Commodus, based on the historical figure Commodus, in the Netflix-series Roman Empire's first season...
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    error. The young Lucius Ceionius Commodus was of the gens Ceionia. His father, also named Lucius Ceionius Commodus (the Historia Augusta adds the cognomen...
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  • of emperor Commodus. His name suggests that his family received Roman citizenship from Marcus Aemilius Lepidus. When the behavior of Commodus turned increasingly...
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  • Ceionius Commodus in AD 78. The rise of this family culminated in the elevation of the emperor Lucius Verus, born Lucius Ceionius Commodus, in AD 161...
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    The Emperor Commodus gave Albinus a command in Gallia Belgica and afterwards in Britain. A false rumor having been spread that Commodus had died, Albinus...
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    Tiberius Claudius Pompeianus (category Generals of Commodus)
    and his 18-year-old son Commodus, Pompeianus' brother-in-law, was proclaimed Roman emperor. Pompeianus tried to persuade Commodus to remain on the Danubian...
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    elder brother Commodus were both made caesars, designating them as co-heirs to the Roman Empire. At the time, Annius was three, and Commodus was five. This...
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    illness at his camp in Vindobona (modern Vienna). He is succeeded by his son Commodus (age 18). The Era of the Five Good Emperors ends. Rome creates a 4-mile...
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