You may have heard of the gladiator-obsessed Roman Emperor Commodus (reign 180-192 AD) made infamous in the movie Gladiator.
Read sections 9-11 of the Life of Commodus in Lampridius’s biography Historia Augusta.
Write a 100-word interpretation of the Roman portrait bust of Commodus as Hercules, making references to Lampridius’s biography.
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Commodus was an evil man because he started to kill people and he believed he was as powerful as a god. in the reading it says as a young man he disgraced every class of men. because Mithra and Commodus was born on the same day Commodus murdered him because he believed he was a high power