How did Lucius Commodus grow up? Barbarian Encyclopedia: Commodus, Emperor Lucius Eliy Aurelius Commodus Syn Mark Aurelius
... Who would have known about the new, Roman emperor Commodus, yakby not the director Ridley Scott, who showed the light story about the rise of the son of the legendary Marcus Aurelius. The Oscar-winning film "Gladiator" makes you stare and weep over the lot of Maximus the Spaniard and overwhelm yourself through the devilish steps of Commodus. However, the podії, presented by the filmmaker, is less than a drop in the sea - in the sea of human blood, as if the emperor-gladiator generously spilled ...
Sin your dad
... Even Skoda, that at the dawn of the past thousand years, there were no signs about the science of genetics. Vtіm, already at that time it was known that friendship with a relative can lead to a nation, mildly seemingly, of incompetent declines. However, the wise and protective philosopher Marcus Aurelius did not sound like a neobachny vchinka. True, historians insist that food for succession to the throne did not play a role here, but it was not there, in 145 rotations the warrior-attorney became friends with his cousin Faustina the Young.
The young squad was more like a garn by itself, and the axis of the reputation її did not look at the prudishness. The evil tongues said that in Rome there was no dear gladiator and sailor, who would not be appeased by the "first lady" - well, she would have grown up to be muscular lads, and do it if their social status was not accepted.
Understandably, a bit about the immodest behavior of the other half reached Marcus Aurelius, and pitying one-minded people urged you to separate from the lady who is walking, but at all try to see the foolish eyes of a person saying: “To be separated means to turn around.” And in the dowry, like it or not, the imperial power was listed.
Having given birth to many daughters of NATO (there were 13 children in total), Faustina gave 161 children two blues - Commodus and Antonina. Sensitively popovzli anew, that the father of the twins - s-pomіzh gladiators, plus their appearance in the world did not happen without a nasty sign. Being in the throes, Faustina had a terrible dream, that she gave birth to two snakes, and one of them was especially fierce ... They bet, pardon, cotton, having lost one: Antonin died at the chotyrirical vіtsi.
I’ll start again to guess about genetics, even, as you know, “oranges don’t grow from Osika”. Klopchin Commodus is a buffalo child, and the axis about vdacha yogo can be said singly. Some chroniclers insist that Commodus is vicious and zhorstoy from young nigtiv, otherwise they don’t pronounce in vain, they speak, the child’s bula is normal, the axis of only sharpening rozbavilo yogo dosi.
The royal father, having secured the sinulka with the most worthy mentors, prote Latin, walnut, the work of great men, and oratorical art - "not a horse's fodder," as it is called. To the greater zazyatty Commodus sang, danced, licked clay bowls and whistled melodies. "A blaze, not an imperial son," the senators said with a frown and Marcus Aurelius frowned. And yet he won’t be able to go to gladiatorial battles, longing to sew his own combat uniform and in the future and hanging out after the battles at the gladiatorial barracks.
The old man had a bad feeling, that the other Nero and Caligula have grown up with him. Chi hot! Yakos Commodus hailed that he should be bathed at the top of the hot water, and punished to throw the attendant into the air. Thank the gods that the young tyrant's uncle figured out to replace the people to burn the sheep's skin - a look of calmness in depression. Ale call yoga low tongue bi without turning around: ice pіdіs, Commodus escorted the father at the military campaigns; warriors, bachachis, take care of the interest of the lad to the martial, they began to master the subtleties of their profession - like cutting with a sword, throwing darts, wielding in blows. Singing, bachachi such diligence and thinking: “What the devil is not hot? Maybe, if you see it, it’s good to see it from a new future, ”- Marcus Aurelius on the 14th, having made a blue gift, recognizing him as the governor and passing three provinces from him…
Own hand - Vlad
At 180 rotations, Marcus Aurelius, who can be called the last of the five good Roman emperors, died a quick death. The author of the film "Gladiator" was always able to interpret the cause of death as "suffocating blue hugs", proteistorians argue that he died from the plague. The court doctors feared for the health of Commodus, and the axis at the Senate, on the other hand, prayed that the motor ailment would drive the young commander to the grave. Even at the time of his death, there were more favorable prospects for becoming an emperor - there were no other declines along the human line of Marcus Aurelius ...
Ale, perhaps, the Creator's prayers didn't come - Nezabar Commodus triumphantly reached Rome. The people were suffocated with a new emperor. And that buv garniy, stringy, has not yet splattered his hands with no blood. I, to the speech, otrimav dodatkovu podiaku, pripiniv 22-river war with the barbarians. Suddenly, on the right, the end was reached, and Marcus Aurelius, having already foreseen the victory, the plague made its own corrections to his plans. But Commodus did not want to endure again in military campaigns ...
The first three fates of the rule of wine are extremely popular among ordinary citizens: at an hour, at a fit of generosity, roaming barrels of wine on the square and treating the Romans, and if the people had a hard time, throwing pennies directly into the natovp - and start to empty the sovereign treasury. At the principle, on this mission, as a ruler, it was completed - more until, like Commodus, there were drunk parties and nocturnal chuvannya in the booths. And he also loved to imagine Hercules for himself and tirelessly repeating his feats, zokrema, by killing wild creatures. The chroniclers recounted that one day the emperor instantly killed five hippos, two elephants, two rhinos and a giraffe “for dessert”. Dressing up with a creature, such a “fashionista” appeared in front of the spіvgromadyans. I vimagav, schoby sculptors created statues of Commodus-Hercules.
And he also gave a new calendar, naming the months in his own way: Herculeus and Commodus. Zrozumilo, Rome punished the name “Commodus colony”, and voted for itself the new Romulus ... Well, obviously, the gladiatorial battles did not go anywhere: the emperor entered the arena more than seven hundred times. I will inevitably win. Perhaps, to that yogo battle arsenal and zahisna ammunition were a hundred times superior, inferior to opponents?
For the sake of his own goodness, Commodus, having made friends, the protégé of Krіspin, can hardly be called a lucky woman: її caresses of wines, having given the priority to the welfare of 300 concubines and styles of cochants. That one, before acquiring a recession of wines, did not show arrogance, did not respect the ganebny to take a squad with them to the gladiatorial battles. In the sight of the blood and terrible wounds of Crispin, the girls were trampling, but Commodus was a little embarrassed.
Just some enemies!
People pokіrno znosiv eccentric vdacha royal person, scarlet that seriously "annoyed" the senators, putting them on one salary. Before the speech, the deacons, historians affirm that in those hours the meager amount of money for a bare salary was called a diet. Through the war, the zmova hid - the Senate against the emperor, and the elder sister of Commodus, Lucilla, stunned him. In the film, the director, having depicted an innocent sheep, as if revisiting all the good things - the prosperity of Rome. Truly, the titon fought for power, not ill at ease with manicure.
And there were “kind people” who dedicated the emperor to far-reaching plans. As a result, a display of the strata of the zradniks was carried out, after which Hercules became more afraid for his own way of life. Vіdteper, if there was any pressure on the backswing and the least suspicion was brought to death by people, the yak was slandered. Prefect Perennis, who was in charge of the rights, was like a maw under Commodity all the time. And then we ourselves became a victim of slander and terribly suffering. On this day, having become a freedman, Cleander, who gave the best lights of the venal power. Everything was sold: the ranks of senators, patricians, consuls, officials from all over the country plundered and shared with Cleander, and that, with their black, did not forget about the generous offer to Commodus. As if putting a tovstosum before the court, for the help of a penny of guilt, I could punish the accusers, testify and bring the judge! This did not happen before, nor since the reign of Cleander.
Skilki motuzochka do not writhe, everything will end the same. For a greedy freedman, the wine is terrible. The people saw the sight of the swaville Klenadr and, having longed for payment, rushed to the imperial palace. There was a pogrom, but Commodus was caught in front by the concubine Marcia. In order to calm the hvilyuvannya of the hulks, I had a chance to beat Cleander, and throw his head at the NATO. And the Romans lost their satisfaction with such “appearances”.
Everything is not like in the cinema
The days of "Hercules" passed in the same and quiet rozvaga: revelry, revelry and gladiatorial battles. Blood flowed like a river and in the arena, and beyond the borders - at the palace. The blows of those swings made Commodus painfully suspect, that the threat to life was constantly hanging over the be-like Roman, to strike over him, who, having respected himself as a lover of the mad emperor.
In one of the unfortunate days for itself, "Hercules" adopted a decision on the strategy of rapprochement - the prefect Litas, the freeman of Eklect and the concubine Marcia, as if she vryatulyal yoga of life. About yogі namіri became condemned, and they did not lose their choice - either you, or you. Everything happened when Commodus took a bath. Athlete Narcissus, with yakim vin, sing as you straighten your wrestling, strangling the emperor. The axis is such an inglorious death, not in the arena, in the hands of a glorious supernik.
The Senate sent a message about the death of Commodus with radio cries. Bulo was praised for destroying all the images of that statue and branding it with eternal shambles. The people want to sneer at this corpse, the scarlet emperor Pertinax did not allow it to be robbed and gave honor to the emperor. The Praetorian Guard suspected that the emperor's death was such a wondrous one, but he was slightly satisfied with the generous gifts of the new ruler. In the provinces, the people for a long time did not dare to believe in the death of the hated emperor, being afraid of some tricky trick from his side. Commodus having taken the early warning, the day of his dissolute life, - forgetfulness. I would have known only historians, yakbi is not a director, who showed the light of history.
Booker Igor 11.04.2019 at 8:00
The Roman Emperor for the sake of remembering a piece of furniture, kindly introduced the blockbuster "Gladiator". For example, a Hollywood film in the guinea in the circus arena in the hands of the main character. The axis and the whole truth of historical truth - Emperor Commodus, not on fire, choking on gladiatorial battles and dying, strangling his sparring partner. Only the emperor's vbivstvo became not so in the eyes of the public, but the darkness of the alcove. Let's put the prose of life and the poetry of art.
The fellows respected Commodus as simple-hearted and narrow-minded, slender to the point of their closeness. Aje vin was the eldest son of the "philosopher on the throne", like the name of the emperor Marcus Aurelius, who left his thoughts in the soul of the philosophical school of the Stoics. Lucius Aurelius having taken his name to the honor of his father, Lucius Vira Commodus. About every vipadok, the first warehouse is put out loud.
At the fifth century (166 roku), they were voted by Caesar, and if you got sixteen (177 roku) - sickle. Sin was the ruler of the father until his death and after the death of the rest, he accepted his name Mark Avreliy Commodus. In 180 rotations, Commodus becomes a one-armed ruler and first issues a "decree about peace" for everything. Vіn pripinyaє vіyna z nіmetskiym tribes marcomanіv, kvaіvі і sarmatіv, vіdmovіvsіvіd vіd vіd vіd vіdzhennya zahoplіnіnі new teritoryіy, successfully rozpochatiy yоgo batka, vypіshnі іnі ї ї ї ї ї ї ї ї ї scho voshtuval navit navit dissatisfied with the peace treaty.
The arched praetorium - the name of the commander, the 20-year-old young man straightened up to Rome, as if he had respected the British historian Edward Gibbon, for salting. Ale, turning from the banks of the Rhine to the Eternal place, Commodus ice did not take off the blow with the dagger. I kind of whom? In the sight of graї vbivts, pіdіslanih yogo dear sister Lucilla! Zmovniki were squandered, Lucilla was sent to Capri, and she died without a hitch. Zazdrіsniki that colleague, like all the times that among different peoples, slandered people who were unaccountable before the coup. On bagsatioh check cat.
Commodus was no less influenced by the aggressive old politics, as if he had seen off Yogo Batko, and also by the support of Marcus Aurelius on the Roman senators. The holy place is not empty, and the lovers of that praetorian prefecture have taken it. Nemov, in order to reinforce his speech, that "power is psuє, but absolute power is psuє absolutely", Commodus, having changed Rome to Commodiana, strongly desires the expansion of nearby cults and opposing the establishment of an unrestricted autocratic monarchy.
However, the death of the emperor was wanted by Yogo Kokhanka (sweet for everything, not one) Marcia. Before her came a freeman (libertus, libertinus - letting the will of the slave) Eklect and the praetorian prefect Quint Emily Let. Tsya, far from being holy, trinity vaguely recognized that Commodus was ready to rule them to the forefathers-lares, they were ahead of such an unacceptable podia for them. The ancient Roman mafia was promoted by the father-senators. The stench denounced Commodus as the enemy of the Batkivshchyna, and they launched the process of demise of the remaining representative of the Antonin family.
Having served as a drive for the greedy villain, Commodus’s name on the day of the holy day, I will enter the consular post to attend the ceremony at the gladiator’s ode at the choli of the processes of these mortal mortals. Unfortunately, Commodus loved the exploits of the mythical hero Hercules and nibi loved to wrap himself in a left skin and wear a club, inheriting the name of the god. On the coins of Commodus, inscriptions were carved, de Hercules, having voted as the funder of the great Rome - "Colonies of Commodian" ( Hercules Romanus Augustus, Hercules Commodianus).
The athlete Narcissus (do not stray with the "chocolate hare and the lagid abomination"), with such Commodus training for an hour to take up a fight, strangling the emperor. While trotting the statue of Commodus and ignoring the inscriptions to his name, Prefect Let secretly saluted the body of the emperor of the earth whom he had decreed.
Lucius Aurelius Commodus did not leave philosophical works. Mark Avreliy podіlyav ideї pіzny stoїtsizm; obviously before the wedding, immoral vchinki underestimated human specialty. Commodus, like having taken power from the recesses, without podіlyav tsikh perekonan. Sovereign turbotam vіdavav vіddavav prіzny genus rozvagi. Navchannya no more than a young man, not respecting those who knew the father for the new best mentors. Batko having chosen and named for a son - їy appeared a representative of the familiar family Bruttiya Krіspіna. About mutual friendship, you will say this: after the call from the enemy, the squad was sent to the island of Capri and then, ymovirno, strachen.
Marcus Aurelius, before his death, transfers power to Commodus. (rushist.ru)
Commodus deceased the empire from the 19th century. For the witnesses of the fellows, placing their own interests in the wines significantly higher, lower than the interests of Rome. At tsomu vin is not similar to his father, the rest of the "good emperor", who gave them stability.
Corruption for the Roman Emperor
The lad, turning his love to the point of ostentatious luxury, from the executions, large sums gradually arose. The dignitaries robbed the state without a trace of conscience - they did not threaten punishment in advance. Governance of Rome Commodus handed over to the hands of his lover, the colossal slave Cleander. Part of the decision and zoomed in on the share of the emperor. Cleander, selling high plantings, Rome hated yoga. Cleander, taking his own bones, recognized as auspicious purposes. Under the hour of the epidemic, famine appeared in Rome, and the people called Cleander in speculation. Zreshtoyu Kommod strativ leader.
Dresser. (wikipedia.org)
The emperor's harem was gradually refilled with new guises. Commodus did not tidy up his anger; having blamed the servant of the vіn instant punish the burn. The Emperor is extremely distrustful; especially brightly tsya rice appeared after a distant remembrance for the fate of sister Commodus. The ruler was delivered denunciations time and time again, they were squandered zhorstok at the zradi. In hatred before the emperor, there were only one and all versions of the population. Corruption has become an invisible element of human life; plant at Rome, you can’t buy a yak. Fear of the emperor's zmovs poddnuvavsya with delusions of grandeur; vin vigadav own masu titles (zokrema "Protector of peace"). Commodus putting himself on a par with the gods. The egoism of the emperor did not know between. On the coins of Commodus, the image of Hercules, the son of Zeus, was depicted. Often the emperor appeared on the gladiatorial arena; the peeps watched the stately warrior in the garb of Hercules, which… threw arrows at the beasts, roaming around the safety behind the fence.
The lord of Commodus took the fate of Yogo Kohanka Marcia, who was an emperor who gave wide povenovazhennia, a dignitary Eklect and prefect of the praetorium. Marcia gave the sacrifice a rebuke, she did not protest. Then the emperor killed yoga slave Narcis. Thus ended the 15th reign of the emperor.
In the history of the Roman Empire, there was such a period when five rulers, who replaced one of them on the throne, ensured her rightful greatness. Read about Nerva, Trajan, Adrian, Antoninus Piest and Marcus Aurelius (as the titles of the period of "five good emperors"). This miraculous row was interrupted in 180 turns, if the purple mantle was put on by the 19-year-old Lucius Commodus, the son of Marcus Aurelius and Faustini the Younger (daughter of Antonina Pia born of Faustini the Elder).
Marcus Aurelius added to his son's wiping at a rich hour. Vіn dovgo romovlyav with him, picking up the best readers. Ale all yogo turboti appeared marnimi. Nothing could correct Commodus' disobedient nature. Commodus mav garnu ovnіshnіst, string figure, indistinct physical strength and marvelous spritnіst. Tsim, vlasne, all yogo perevagi were exhausted.
Signs of zhorstokostі vin showing on the twelfth cycle of life. Yakos, if a yogo mile in hot water over there, having punished them, throw the bathhouse attendant into the air. Todi uncle yogo, who was punished to be robbed by burning a mutton skin at the stove, so that with a stinking smell of garou, that the punishment was vikonano.
At 175 rotations, in the days of the rebellion of Avidius Kasiya, Commodus accompanied the father at his journey to Egypt and Syria. After the first vote by the emperor, and the advancing fate, violating the law on the century, having first removed the consulate. Commodus behaved scornfully and sighed, his manners did not see in a new man a high-minded person. Ring out the wines of the ledarstvo - stribav, whistling, acting like a clown. Vіn defiling his palace with stingy piaks and beshkets, and turning his apartments on the table for prostitution and nasty nasolod. There, with your comrades in the charms, you drank to the point of wasting your confidence, shamelessness, and not for a second worrying about decency.
Such was the cob of the stingy life of Commodus, the son of the best and wisest of all Roman emperors. People who have permanently alienated Yogo, less than longed for Yogo in vicious behavior, that guilt and not having entrusted anyone from themselves, who did not become flattering to Yogo, but to turn Yogo to roiling addictions.
Mark Aurelius, obviously, everything was known about this madness, having won the guilt of taking his son with you on a trip to Scіthia, the de revolt of the Marcomanni tribe began anew to the military deeds. And earlier, he had made friends with Commodus on Crispin, one of the most beautiful women in Rome, the daughter of Senator Bruttius Present, whose merits were repeatedly recognized by the consulate. Alas, it’s a pity that Krispina did not give in to her father’s splendid traits, but in the end she dishonored her with the most scandalous benefits.
After the pictorial wedding, the emperor from the synom violated to Scіfії. Unexpectedly, the emperor contracted the plague and died, leaving Commodus with his downtrodden, who had arrogantly pinned the end of the war on his father. Having accepted some enemies, having bought the friendship of others, having bought a penny, and hastened to the next Rome.
For a long time, Commodus gave his strength to his batkiv friends and, on all right, was crowned with their joys. Ale potim vіn putting on the choli praetorian Perennіsa, born in Italy, like a malevolent young man, zowsim rozbestiv yogo and vіdvolіk vіd turbot, scho lie to the sovereign. Willingly succumbing to yoga infusion, Commodus became shalenіt in the palace on benquets and in the lavatory at once with triplet concubines, choosing some wines from more and more squads of aristocrats, as well as from triplet grown-up raspusniks, collecting such wines from the common people and the nobility, forcibly.
In an hour, having allowed Commodus to take care of the malts and piyaks, Perennis step by step gained such strength that all the control of the state appeared in his hands. Having poured in my wines, I won the honor of victorious in the ugly goals and on the ground before us, we make a slander on the most important friends and associates of Marcus Aurelius. The success of yoga steps was taken and zmov against the emperor, revealed to herself at the same time. The sister of the princeps Lucilla stood on the cholі zmovniki, and Commodus was beaten by a small person, Claudius Pompeian. Ale, having reached Commodus with a bared sword, yelling: "This sword is sent to you by the Senate." Tsim vin only having seen the reason for thinking, but not having done it right, to the fact that I had that very hvilina of debauchery.
Commodus never forgot the words of Pompeian, as he tried to drive in yoga. The stench of the flooring sunk into his head, because from that hour onwards the Senate had no more than their sworn enemies. Thus began to appear this merciless hatred to the point of exaggeration, which brought tears to Rome to the flow of blood. Vin having punished the most prominent senators, especially close friends of Marcus Aurelius. Colonel Patern, the head of the yogo defence, who called out to the preparers for a swing at his life, and the Kondiani brothers, as if in truth they served in the warriors of the yogo father, became the first victims of the wild attack of the ungodly fierce yogo. Salviy Yulian, commander of one of the armies, tezh buv zabiti.
Everyone was already afraid of Commodus because of his zhorstokіst and hated his statuary disunity: he pissed off his sisters and humiliated to the death of all their closest relatives. Vіn uvіv u zvichay vіddavati svoїh concubines we want to vgamuvat hіt, but only in yoga presence.
There was no such madness in the world, which Commodus did not go into without application, previously unstriking. Krіspіna, zvichayno, was a sign of all that was dismissed, ale їy was suing yogo chi skarzhitisya - there was no better than nothing. Commodus, once having caught її z with one of the disbanded cavalrymen, laid the floors in such a manner and dishonor that he immediately hung the loving squad on the island of Capri.
Previously, such a share of spіkkala and colossus of the Empress Lutsil, yak was sent there. To say that a bad misfortune united them, and friendly sisters stood between them. However, it is reliable to see that the stinks of offense were clogged there.
Perenіs has not long outlived his enemies. Nezabarom vіn buv zvinucheny in preparation for the swing for the life of the emperor and striving together with his son. With the death of both, numerical evils were broken, like a nibito they repaired by the will of the emperor. Commodus, having said a lot about the order of his colossal favorite, and navit voicing about his own name, to take special care of sovereign rights. Ale, having tasted wines in such a mood for no more than a month, and then everything went on as before. The place of Perennis occupied the free-living place Cleander. Vіn having reached such honor and power that he was entrusted with special protection, head of the bedchamber of the sovereign and command of the military. Svavіllі ts'ogo timchasovogo ruler was not an annual inter. On this occasion, freedmen were elected to the Senate and insured to patricia. Then, in one river, 25 consuls and all provinces were sold. Cleander, having sold everything for a penny: having honored the returnees from the vignannya with honorable tenures, squeezing the decision of the court. The moustache, who tried to open Commodus' eyes to the evil of Cleander, ignorantly recognized the disgrace. Commodus punished the strata to bring a man to his sister Virra, and at the same time, a lot of other bugs were hammered into him, as if they were kidnapping Yogo. Among the victims, there is also the prefect of the praetoria Ebunian. Natomist Cleander himself became a prefect.
And at this hour, Commodus, entangled with frivolous passions, did not want to think about anything else, like about their satisfaction. We spent all the days of wine at the amphitheater in the essences of wild animals, which I beat with my hands. Bazhayu glorify yourself with such crooked battles, mute with great military feats, and dare to call yourself Roman Hercules, walking with a left skin, with a club in your hands. Having turned their palace into a harem of hell, where hundreds of women and boys lived, as they became unfortunate victims of this greedy dissolution. Vіn dіyshov to such impudence that he gave the city of Rome his own name, calling him Commodian, and, as it seems, for such an extravagant crotch, yogo was embarrassed by Marcia, the concubine herself repaired the shards from the ears of yogo on the new strongest infusion.
Marcia was a completely garnier, a hospitable woman, superbly cunning, building intrigues on the backstage of courtiers. Їy buv vіdomy the secret of winning the new trust of Commodus, which she won with pokіrnoy servility and subtle caresses.
Vaughn had little respect for the Christians, wanting to be unable to dare to follow their holy way of life. Vaughn constantly stood up for their interests, giving them grace. As a result, this religious sect lived in peace and quiet during the reign of Commodus, although at the same time as near Rome itself, so in the provinces there were crooked divisions, the blood of innocent victims flowed in a stream through the zhahliva zhorstokіst of the emperor. Marcia, the concubine is in love, the emperor has bewitched the floorings, which he could not instill in the smallest prohanna.
Commodus' bajannya made Marcia come to the point where he changed his name and ordered to call himself Amazon - in honor of Marcia, depicted in the picture in the dress of an Amazon: this is the will of the spritna woman, respectfully, it looks so calm. You can bring one more, the most amazing example of the weakness of the emperor to Marcia, which enchanted him with her enchanting charm. So, vin appears in public, in the amphitheater, in the costumes of an Amazon, so that in such a rite to demonstrate cochants, in a sort of hoarding to come vin, if she stands in front of him with such an odia.
At 189 roci Cleander was stingy at the majestic kіlkosі bread and trimming yoga under the castle, which called out famine in the capital. At the same time, the commodus was laying the floor in the middle of the right of the state, who didn’t know anything about the price. If the people of NATO had demolished the palace to the last, in order to bring the scarga to Cleandra, it was thrown at her. As a result, on the streets of the city, a fair battle was played out between the roaring blacks and the horsemen. Only some of them ventured to Commodus to convey about those who were, and were ordered by Cleander's negaino stratity. If the head of the hated freedman was shown to the Romans, the praises fell by themselves. The same was driven in by other courtiers of the freemen, the proteges of Cleander.
After the vikrittya of Cleander, the suspicions of the emperor to the senate became even more powerful. Believing that he was not guilty of trusting anyone anymore, Commodus, having now become suspicious of instilling people of the highest dignity and rank, and only now the death could bring you more peace of mind. Papir, who had taken the death of Cleander; Julian, ruler of Rome, whom the emperor called his "father"; Julius Oleksandr, chorobrian, military leader, general and rich, rich and many other prominent specialties fell victim to this fierce.
Before us, there have been reports about the implausible zhorstok_st of the Chest of drawers. For example, having punished one priest to cut his own hand in order to bring his piety. On the quiet of the emperor, near the streets of Rome, they drove away a lot of sick people, with whom they used arrows from bows.
Ale navit tsі crooked cracks did not turn Commodus into yogo famous bad windings and p'yanikh beshketiv. Today, you show up in the amphitheatre, and go out to fight with gladiators, or to see things with wild animals, boasting about your endless feats. Sometimes wines appear in a wondrous way, which calls out to the solemn clatter of the removed - left skin, thrown over a purple cloak with golden flecks, with a cue at the hand in the inheritance of Hercules. Standing in front of us in a woman's dress, beer for the health of the present and otrimuvav, perhaps, great satisfaction in the sight of health, which are celebrated on yoga honor "Long live the emperor!" After some wine, straight at that part of the amphitheater, where battles of gladiators took place, slaughtering mercilessly to death silently, who, having gone the opposite way, wanting these unfortunate ones, with force, zdavatisya you, not repairing the desired support. The senators, with laudatory wiguks, vindicated the zhorstok and the emperor's horrendous behavior. If they killed a bear, a lion or a lesser beast, all the stench applauded loudly and slavishly shouted: "You overcome the world! You are a conqueror of the world, O good Amazonian!"
Commodus was the first emperor, like a viyshov on the arena of the amphitheater, like a fighter against wild animals and like a gladiator. About Tsikh nechuvanih in rimskіy іstorії dіyannyah Gerodіan rozpovіdaє "Commodus, vzhe not strimuyuchi currently taking fate in publіchnih vidovischah who gave obіtsyanku Vlasna hand hammered vsіh zvіrіv i bitisya in єdinoborstvі of muzhnіmi of yunakіv Pogolos about tse poshirivsya W usієї Іtalії susіdnіh provіntsіy.. people hurried to marvel at those whom the stench hadn’t smelt before and about what they didn’t chuli, even they spoke about the power of one’s hand and about those who, throwing a list and shooting an arrow, would not miss in any way. fencing at the sight of the countryside, sob not hurting the trouble, fighting with the animals of the vich-on-vich, and throwing the deeds to the beast, from the safe place, revealing more brilliance, less mercifulness. a hundred lions, having killed them with such a large number of darts - their corpses lay for a long time, to that everyone calmly resurrected them and did not reveal a zayvoy dart.
Having vanished Commodus in 192 groups as a result of the move, the opposition was organized by the closest people. It seems that having cooked with his kohanka Marcia, he made a list of quiet people whom he wants to spend those nights. Let's encircle Marcia and more than a few people, before the new boules of Let, the prefect of the praetoria, that Eklect, the imperial sleeping bag. It so happened to Alya that Philocommodus, a little lad, with whom the emperor loved to roam and sleep, groggily, pulling out the list from Commodus's office. In this rank, having spent wine to the hands of Marcia, and she showed yoga to Leta and Eklektu. Although this story is not plausible, it is entirely imaginary; I know without a doubt that the three of them planned to kill the princeps and made their plan.
On the taєmnіy for the sake of it, the destruction of Commodus and the death of shvidshe were victorious. Such a plan seemed to him the most realistic, Marcia always gave the emperor shards of encouragement. Turning from the laznі, roznі і pragu Commodus asking Marcia to bring you a drink. Vaughn gave him a kelich of miraculous wine, and then it “appeared” on the mats of dirt, which after a few kilkoh kovtkiv Commodus immediately saw a strong beat at the shlunk (Dion stverdzhu, that they served you m'yaso at the supper). Marcia and Eklektom asked for all the five bedrooms of the emperor, who, having said, now needs peace and comfort. Ale raptom, on their great zhah, the builders chimed, that the emperor began to vomit more strongly. The stinks were stinking, that with such a rank of wines, wipe off, and everything will become visible. In order to secure themselves and bring their plan to the end, they asked the famous wrestler Narcissus, who had an unabashed strength, to strangle the emperor in his bed, blaming him for his generosity of the wine city. Vin so i vchiniv.
The Senate, having praised this vchinok, negainally voted Commodus "the enemy of vіchizni". The disorganized senators of the NATO longed to stretch this body through the streets of Rome and throw it into the Tiber, and erase them from all disputes. Ale Pertinax (Commodus's successor as emperor; first emperor with freedmen) did not allow that death. The body in the taєmnitsі vіd usіh was buried in the tomb of Adrian. Not without reason, the Emperor Septimius Pivnich, having established himself, in spite of the Senate and for the removal of the support of this Marcus Aurelius, zarahuv Commodus to the gods, praising the holy day of the people’s day, and throwing Narciss on the wedding to the lions.
(193 rubles), Septimiya Pivnochi (193-211 rubles), Caracali (211-217 rubles)
Commodus and Marcus Aurelius
Zmova Materna
The appearance of the British deputation at Rome already showed the fall of discipline; Nezabar after this, there were other symptoms of demoralization of the imperial army. Matern, a simple warrior, a human being, having recruited from deserters, conscripts and slaves, I will kill the robbers in numbers, walking with her in Gaul, in Spain, robbing riches without protection. The rulers of the quiet provinces for a long time marveled at the robbery without dedication, perhaps, obsessing over those parts of the booty. Commodus' punishments were punished to the point of depriving them of their carelessness; the stench behind the wild plan demolished the army against the robbers, honed the battle of Materna from the sides; she could not have stood up to the one who was so numerous. Matern, having thought up his own way, vryatuvatisya and take revenge. For yoga, the robbers changed their clothes and rozіyshlis small groups; sneaking among the warriors, the stench went with deserted girsky stitches to Rome, not marked by anyone, they climbed there for the hour of the Megalesky saint, if the people were noisy and wildly having fun. Matern wants to get into the zagіn of the guardians with the last comrades, beat the emperor Commodus and the status of the robber as the king of the state. Ale deyaki yogo sleepers, zazdrіst up to the new, have seen the world. Matern і nayvazhlivіshі z yogo comrades buli skoplenі і strachenі (kvіten 188).
Cleander
The people yakuvav to the gods for the order of the emperor in the form of two zms. Ale yakby, having ascended the throne of Perennis abo Matern, the state would hardly have begun to suffer more, less suffered from Commodus. Vin was afraid of evildoers; more and more moving away from the people, alive in his villas, engaged in fencing with gladiators, and giving all the administration and judicial power to the new prefect Cleander, a Phrygian, who had eaten at the palace as a slave and gained the graciousness of his master Commodus with diligence. Cleander is not as ambitious as Perennis; panіvnoy predilection yogo was greedy; Having become a prefect, having satisfied his hunger, selling plantings in Rome itself and in the provinces, vying the court's inquiries for the habar. Cleander publicly selling the rank of consul, rank of patrician, senator, Gibon, and whoever was inspired to buy donations of a greater part of his will become empty, may be ganebni, titles, having spent bi to the number of evil-doers. Cleander, having taken a penny from himself, was recognized for the morning of good institutions. The rulers of the provinces plundered the people and shared prosperity with the prefect. The rich evil-doers easily bathed their lack of carnity and ruined the quiet, who, swearing at them, ruined the witnesses. Cleander pіdtremuvav himself in the favor of the emperor with forests and miraculous gifts, like hour after hour klav to nіg Commodus. Vіn vlashtovuvav miraculous games, robb suspіlnі budіvlі, schob turn the people to himself. Behind the intrigues of Cleander, Senator Burr, the man of the sister of Commodus, who dared to speak to you about the vileness of his lover, and Arriy Antonin, the descendant of the name of that honesty Antoninov, the colossal proconsul of Asia and acted on the work of injustice, I. The leader of the emperor, having invented a zmovu, calling Burra and Antonin the yogo spivuchas, and Commodus punishing the strata їх.
Blinded by the saints, as if generously giving to you Cleanander, the Roman people for three years vindicated the tyranny of the greedy Phrygian, the colossal slave. And yet the hour of the epidemic, which was terribly raging in Rome, if 2000 people died a day, spitted the capital even more famously: famine began, it appeared that the culprit of the destruction of Cleander's speculation, as if he had bought all the bread; the people of NATO pishov to the palace of the emperor. The palace, for whom Commodus is alive, for one is the frontier of Rome; natovp surrounded the palace and pressed Cleander's head. Zagin of the praetorian cinema, having attacked the yurba, it ran to the place; the cinematograph replayed it, but at the narrow streets it shot up an open opir. The people threw z vikon and pokrіvel darts, stones, and other important speeches in praetorians; They had a chance to enter. The people of NATO, numbered for the colossus, having stepped up to the gates of the palace, repeating their might. Commodus disbanded at the distant part and did not feel the Galas, not knowing anything about those who were afraid. Fadilla, the emperor's sister, and Marcia, loved by his concubine, the wicked ones, who ran in, with loose hair, at the room, rushed in front of Commodus, favoring him to calm the nativities, sacrificing the hated prefect. Commodus jumped from the perelyaku, three thousand for his life, commanded to cut the head of the villain Cleander, put it on the list and show it to the people (189 p.). Natovp rose with cries of joy.
Commodus - gladiator
It would be easy for the sin of Marcus Aurelius to save the love of the downtrodden Roman people for a while, without violating the rules of propriety. The Emperor Commodus would not have been hurt by the displeasure of the senators: natovp chomping on games and saints, giving them a lot of wine, himself enjoying them. But in yoga pravlinnі there was nothing like that, even if skilki pretended to be vileness of yoga private life. Son of the sovereign, who put knowledge and wisdom over everything, Commodus zmalyavlyav ogid to borrow to the rozumovy, to everything noble. The emperor loves more than the rough blackness: playing the circus, the gladiatorial fight, fighting with wild animals. Batko asked to go to Rome for the new best vikladachi; These lessons were boring, good for you. Commodus knows his own mentors - the Moor and the Parthian, who diligently learned to shoot with a bow and throw a dart, and had access to unparalleled mastery in these mysteries. To show my mastery to the people was the greatest success of all. If Commodus became an emperor, he began to give wine in the gladiatorial circus and in the amphitheaters of miracles, like it was for Nero and Domitian; It was the emperor himself who stepped into the arena as the lead fighter in the arena.
On the back of Commodus, showing his mysticism, we will no longer look at the lookers in the arenas of our palaces and villas; but the praises of the wealthy courtiers turned his head, forgetting his goodness, every rubbish and becoming a hero in public arenas. From the other lands - from India, Parthia, from the desert of Arabia, Ethiopia, with majestic vitrates brought from the zoo of circuses and foreign creatures, sokrema like that, like a chimney of Rome, and the marvelous archer emperor, driving them into the tracts of gladiators. The Leafs called Yogo the Roman Hercules. Tse im'ya was so worthy of the fucking fool Commodus, that he commanded to depict himself on coins with the attributes of Hercules. On the sides of the throne of Yogo stood a mace and lay a left skin, and he himself at the gorges in the valleys with a left skin thrown over a vishita with a golden porphyry and a mace of Hercules.
Statue of Commodus image of Hercules. OK. 191-192 pp.
Ale at his inherited hero, Emperor Commodus did not reach the point where he could spend his life on safety while driving in hut animals: hundreds of animals were allowed into the arena, the stench ran across the sand, and the Roman Hercules stood behind the mothers of the mothers; The long arrows, in which there was little form of light, fought lions, tigers, elephants, panthers, giraffes, cut long-term ostriches, and the victims of yoga magic could not reach the hero-gladiator. When fencing with gladiators, Commodus maw a sholom, a shield and a sword, - buv, as it was called by the Romans, a gladiator-secutor, and yogo opponent mav his only trident and net, which are thrown on motuz, like up to a lasso.
It seems that Commodus won such a gladiatorial battle 736 times. The Senate may be present at the hour of the emperor's deeds; only Pompeian, the man of the emperor's sister Lucilli, dare not be here. The glorious victories of the emperor-gladiator were recorded in sovereign documents, and Commodus, having reached his battle to the point that he took the great wine city for his gladiatorial practice, a new tax was introduced to pay for what was done. Vzagali vіn buv vinakhіdlivim from the right earning pennies for their spending money. Dion, it seems, that the senators, including wine himself, the squads of those children of the senators were obliged to give the emperor on the day of the first people two gold coins each, and members of the ranks of the councils of other cities from five drachmas.
The whole story of Commodus' life was featured in the famous film by Ridley Scott "Gladiator" (2000). The image of the emperor-lover of gladiatorial battles was created by actor Joaquin Phoenix.
The image of Emperor Commodus in Ridley Scott's film "Gladiator" (2000)
