The Emperor Commodus: God and Gladiator by John S. McHugh

The Emperor Commodus: God and Gladiator

John S. McHugh

320 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction autobiography biography history dark tense medium-paced
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Commodus is synonymous with debauchery and megalomania, best remembered for fighting as a gladiator. Ridiculed and maligned by historians since his own time, modern popular culture knows him as the patricidal villain in Ridley Scott's Gladiator. M...

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