Commodus

• “However, movies … … I love epics, "Commodus is not a moral man" – Galadiators, "Choose your words carefully" – 300, Troy et al; books … ..”

  Interview Thursday: Our 2nd Male Guest; Remarkable RETHOTS!

• “Commodus is saved by “licet incruentus;” and perhaps”

  The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

• “The Commodus is a statue of Hercules, with the lions skin and an infant in his arms, also in the Vatican.”

  The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini

• “The Commodus is a statue of Hercules, with the lion’s skin and an infant in his arms, also in the Vatican.”

  XXXVII

• “Commodus," I interrupted, "is not altogether a bungler when he gives his mind to the duties of his office.”

  Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire

• “Commodus opens up the narrative, but only very briefly.”

  Matthew Yglesias » What Would The Roman Empire Do?

• “A lot about Commodus himself, but it is rather long on outrage at his infamy (... infamy, they've all got it in for me) and short on detail; compared to Caligula he seems fairly small beer.”

  Gibbon IV

• “Marcus Aurelius 'biological legacy to the empire was his appalling son Commodus, whose reign Gibbon marks (in Chapter IV) as very much the crucial starting point of the decline of Rome.”

  October Books 21) Year's Best SF 7, edited by David G. Hartwell

• “This chapter is about 70% Commodus and 30% Pertinax; the former reigned for 13 years and the latter less than three months.”

  Gibbon IV

• “Chapter IV: The cruelty, follies and murder of Commodus [with added Pertinax]”

  Gibbon IV

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