You likely know the name Commodus as the bad guy from Gladiator, the Best Picture winner from 2000. Played as a pervy psychotic by Joaquin Phoenix, Emperor Commodus is portrayed as a man with ...

Commodus kills him and claims himself Emperor. The new leader of Rome also arranges to have Maximus and his family killed, but the general escapes and begins his journey as a gladiator ...

VIII. The strangest volunteer gladiator was a Roman Emperor. His name was Emperor Commodus, who you might recognise from the movie Gladiator. He was a deeply unpopular emperor who ruled Rome until ...

Before his death, the Emperor chooses Maximus to be his heir over his own son, Commodus, and a power struggle ... general is captured and put into the Gladiator games until he dies.

The EBRC’s latest report isn’t just about population shifts—it’s a masterstroke of political alchemy, tilting the arena to ...

It’s been 24 years since the Ridley Scott classic Gladiator came out, starring Russell Crowe as Maximus and Joaquin Phoenix as Emperor Commodus, the outstanding film received five Academy Awards ...

which picks up 16 years after ancient Roman emperor Commodus dies, and twin emperors Geta and Caracalla begin running the empire. Now, I could bore you with the rest of the plot details ...

a slave and a gladiator who eventually takes down the corrupt Emperor Commodus before dying a noble death in the gladiator arena. In the first film, we briefly meet Lucilla’s young son ...

Before his death, the Emperor chooses Maximus to be his heir over his own son, Commodus, and a power struggle ... general is captured and put into the Gladiator games until he dies.