Commodus

In modern day, the term athlete has revolutionized to cover a wide range of people with different skills sets who compete in varies types of competitions. Not many of those people day would fit under the criteria of an athlete during the ancient times. In the text “Was the Roman Gladiator an Athlete? The author Heather L. Reid conveys the idea to the reader that gladiators should not be considered athletes because they purposely undermine the dignity and anatomy of its competitors for there own…

The articles “Gladiator University” wrote by Jennifer Marino Walter and the article “Did Gladiators Always Fight to the Death?” , these articles changed the way readers look at gladiators and their ways. The recent archaeological developments has changed ever reader's perspective on gladiators. In these passages it explains how they lived and what archaeologist discovered about gladiators lifestyle. We in modern time thought gladiators were murderous and inhumane people. In shows, movies and…

The Gladiators and games were not what they are historically described as in most history textbooks. History teaches us that the gladiators were murderers, rapists and the dregs of the Roman Empire and they were forced to fight. However, this is not entirely the case. The role of the Gladiators and the Gladiatorial games on the Roman Empire was long-lasting and far-reaching. When the games first took off, many of the soldiers were actually volunteers who wanted to fight to increase their social…

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius (121-180 AD) was a Roman Emperor from about i'll say 161 to about 180. He is until this today still considered one of the most influential and important Stoic philosophers of history. This book from what I have seen is almost like a personal notebook or one could say a diary; hey were not intended to be for publication and along with that he called them a “Writing To Myself”. He died from what is believed to be cancer or a plague, furthermore going into the overall…

For more than 650 years, people flocked to arenas to watch armed and highly-trained warriors engage in a blood-soaked spectacle equal parts sport, theater, and cold-blooded murder. The warriors who fight in the arena are called gladiators. Gladiators were one of the toughest people back in the day. Gladiators would only fight a few days a year. Gladiators ate really well and trained everyday. Way back in the day, Gladiators were one of the toughest people. Everyone wanted to see them fight.…

violent. The Romans enjoyed violent acts, and were encouraged to attend gladiator fights every week. In Ridley Scott’s movie Gladiator, Marcus Aurelius told Maximus that he should be the next ruler of Rome. When Commodus heard what his father planned to do, he murdered his father. Then Commodus ordered his men to execute Maximus. The men took…

wishes to exact revenge on Commodus then he’d have to work within the lot life had provided. As supported in Vladimir’s review, “(Maximus) ends up as a gladiator, at the very bottom of society; and from this position, using all his brains and brawn, he plans to avenge himself and his family.”(2000) Giving in fully to being a slave and cooperating in the gladiator games, ultimately surrendering his freedom. Maximus faced many obstacles within himself and with Commodus in an ancient battle of…

members of higher status within Roman society taking part in public spectacles did not just end at the elite, however. In fact, a few Roman emperor’s themselves took part in such festivities. Those that were of the most criticized included Nero and Commodus. Nero was not only a fan of the arena, but he became infamous for his performances as a gladiator, “pushing the public persona required for an emperor to an extreme that conservative Roman values… found disgraceful” (Futrell 37). It began…

In the film, Maximus defeated Commodus although historically Commodus was actually strangled to death by his wrestling partner after failing to be killed by poison. The time between his appointment to emperor and death was greatly reduced in the movie to a much shorter time period compared to the historical…

Aurelius and Commodus are the focal point of this film. The film gladiator portrays romantic versions of the Senate and antagonistic, more than usual, versions of the Emperor. There are flagrant misunderstanding of the Roman political climates and just how dirty they would play. Commodus's inelegant ascension is way more smooth in the movie than it would have been. Fiction is never obligated to the facts but to the essence of history and should you wish to create a fabricated account of…