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👑 On this day in 192 CE: Emperor Commodus is murdered by his coach and professional wrestler, Narcissus, after a previous assassination attempt had failed.
📷 Photos by Mark Cartwright.
#Commodus #History #OnThisDay #TodayInHistory #MarcusAurelius #Rome
🪷 On 31 December in the year 192 AD #Commodus was strangled to death by his wrestling mate Narcissus at the baths. So ended #Hadrian's #Antonine Dynasty. #ChristopherPlummer starred in #falloftheromanempire. The Rome Forum movie set was built on a plain in Spain. Watch: youtu.be/EkSV81X-gQI 🪷
Bust of Commodus
31 December 192: #Commodus, the 18th Emperor of the Roman Empire, was assassinated. #History #Rome
Sculptural portrait of Emperor Commodus, over a black background
#OTD AD192 #Roman #Emperor #Commodus was assassinated. With little interest in government, he took part in gladiatorial games & portrayed himself as Hercules. Megalomania & mental instability resulted in assassination by conspirators, including his mistress.
Commodus as Hercules, British Museum
👑 #Commodus, Emperor of Rome (180-192), was assassinated #OTD 31 December 192 AD.
He was first poisoned by his lover Marcia, but when he vomited up the poison, a wrestler strangled him in the bath. He was 31. #AncientRome
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#Commodus 's sole reign is commonly thought to mark the end of the #PaxRomana, a golden age of peace and prosperity in the history of the #RomanEmpire.
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👑 #OTD in #History 27 Nov 176 AD, Roman Emperor #MarcusAurelius made his son #Commodus Imperator to share ruling the Empire, also making him Supreme Commander of the Roman legions.
⚔️ THE REAL EMPEROR FROM GLADIATOR.
This certified Commodus Denarius is the relic of the tyrant whose madness ended Rome's Golden Age. He was the son of a philosopher, who chose the arena.
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#KinzerCoins #Commodus
MOSAIC FLOOR, C. 150-182 CE. VILLA DEI QUINTILI This massive suburban villa was built by the rich senatorial brothers Sextus Quintilius Valerius Maximus and Sextus Quintilius Condianus, who were held in such high regard by Antoninus Pius that he made them both consuls in 151 CE. Unfortunately their service and loyalty did not protect them from the envy of the last of the Antonines, Caracalla, who so badly wanted this luxurious property that he trumped up treason charges against them and put them to death in 182. He immediately took possession of the villa and adapted it to his own use; it remained an imperial property until the C6 and underwent many restorations and alterations. Here we have a short, semi-basement corridor with a simple geometric pattern of rows of black alternating triangles to create white hexagons between them, framed with a wide black mosaic border.
#MosaicMonday takes us into a corridor with linear #fresco decoration and an intact geometric #mosaic floor, c. 150 CE, in the stupendous #VilladeiQuintili along the #Appia south of #Rome. The villa was the cause of its builders' death: #Commodus had them killed and took it. #AncientBluesky 🏺
⚔️ THE EMPEROR FROM GLADIATOR.
This certified Commodus Denarius is the coin of the tyrant whose madness ended Rome's Golden Age. He was the real-life emperor who fought in the arena.
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#KinzerCoins #Commodus
🪷 #WorldBeardDay After #Hadrian made beards fashionable, his chosen heirs all had beards: #LuciusAelius, #AntoninusPius, #LuciusVerus, #MarcusAurelius and #Commodus. The first Saturday of September is World Beard Day. #BeardDay 🪷
🪷 Happy birthday to #Commodus, born 31 August 161 AD. Our fave film Commodus is #ChristopherPlummer in #falloftheromanempire. He looked so gleeful being so wicked. This sprawling Roman Forum film set was built on a sunny plain in Spain. Majestic music: #DimitriTiomkin. Watch: youtu.be/EkSV81X-gQI 🪷
It's a big day for #controversial Emperors as we wish happy birthday to Emperors #Caligula and #Commodus! Born AD 12 & AD 161 respectively, neither emperor was especially popular with their people. Both styled themselves as gods, with Commodus seeing himself as Hercules.
“Suspicious princes often promote the last of mankind from a vain persuasion, that those who have no dependence, except on their favour, will have no attachment, except to their benefactor.” (Edward Gibbon)
👑 #Commodus, Roman Emperor (180-192 AD), was #BOTD 31 August 161 AD.
Equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius, bust of a young Marcus Aurelius, denarius of Marcus Aurelius and a quote
Equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius, bust of a young Marcus Aurelius, denarius of Marcus Aurelius and a quote
Equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius, bust of a young Marcus Aurelius, denarius of Marcus Aurelius and a quote
Equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius, bust of a young Marcus Aurelius, denarius of Marcus Aurelius and a quote
🎉 Happy Birthday to #MarcusAurelius. One of the "Five Good Emperors" & a #stoic philosopher, he was born in Rome, 26 Apr AD121. His reign began in 161 succeeding Antoninus Pius & ruling jointly with Lucius Verus until 169. He married Faustina the Younger & was succeeded by his son #Commodus.
#OTD Annia Aurelia Galeria #Lucilla, was born AD148-50. Daughter of the Marcus Aurelius & Faustina the Younger. In AD182, she became involved in a plot to assassinate her brother #Roman Emperor #Commodus - the plot failed & Lucilla was banished & later killed in AD182 aged 34.
Statue and bust of Lucilla; gold and silver coins of Lucilla
Statue and bust of Lucilla; gold and silver coins of Lucilla
Statue and bust of Lucilla; gold and silver coins of Lucilla
Statue and bust of Lucilla; gold and silver coins of Lucilla
#OTD Annia Aurelia Galeria #Lucilla, was born AD148-50. Daughter of Emperor Marcus Aurelius & Faustina the Younger. In AD182, she became involved in a plot to assassinate her brother #Roman Emperor #Commodus - the plot failed, Lucilla was banished &; later killed in AD182, aged 34.
👑⚔️ #OTD in the #History of #AncientRome 7 March 161 AD, Emperor #AntoninusPius died, with #MarcusAurelius and #Commodus (who changed his name to #LuciusVerus) becoming joint rulers of the Roman Empire.
He’s going crazy like Roman #Emperor #Commodus ( who also referred to himself as ‘the golden one who ushered in the #golden age’ ) 🤪
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🪷 On 31st December 192 AD #Commodus, who fancied himself a #gladiator, was strangled to death by his wrestling mate Narcissus at the baths. So ended #Hadrian's #Antonine Dynasty. #ChristopherPlummer starred in #falloftheromanempire. The Rome Forum movie set was built on a plain in Spain.🪷
Bust of Emperor Commodus in the J. Paul Getty Museum.
31 December 192: #Commodus, the 18th Emperor of the Roman Empire, was assassinated. #History #Rome
👑 #Commodus, Emperor of Rome (180-192), was assassinated #OTD 31 December 192 AD.
He was first poisoned by his lover Marcia, but when he vomited up the poison, a wrestler strangled him in the bath. He was 31. #AncientRome
Elon's repost directly below his normal "working peasant population in crisis" Christmas post.. is celebrating the evolution and development of his RC bots. The level of self-delusion. #Commodus #Musk
On this day in 176, Emperor Marcus Aurelius bestows upon his son Commodus the title of "Imperator" and appoints him as the Supreme Commander of the
Roman legions. #RomanHistory
#EmperorMarcusAurelius #Commodus
#OTD
👑 #OTD in #History 27 Nov 176 AD, Roman Emperor #MarcusAurelius made his son #Commodus Imperator to share ruling the Empire, also making him Supreme Commander of the Roman legions.
