Thursday, February 27, 2020

T.B.T. the 70's (177 AD)

This guy, the dude who's name sounds like a Latin toilet "Commodus" son of Marcus Aurelius. 

You may remember him as a character in the movie Gladiator. 
He was a villain in the movie but the actual guy was much worse. 
He once killed 100 lions with arrows supposedly to "entertain" but even those crowds well used to slaughter saw it was a dick move. 
He did actually fight in the gladiator arena and never lost a match (odd since he only used a wooden sword...and his Praetorian Guard.) 
This is how I imagine the president's son will be remembered (if at all) killing defenseless animals for joy and being an entitled prick. 
So eventually the Prefect, a dude called Laetus got sick of Commodus and hatched a conspiracy to poison him.
 When that didn't work they sent a wrestler to strangle him. That did work. 
He was cremated and his name stricken from the records.
What a douche. 
Then in 195 AD an emperor called Severus wanted to gain favor with the Auralius family so he restored Commodus's name and instructed the senate to make him a god. 
Fun.



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