The Unspeakable Things Emperor Commodus Did During His Reign - A Day In History
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Date: 2022-09-18
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Willard
Rome's cruelty came not just from a ruling caste, but especially from a collective disdain for their fellow beings. Roman entertainment was largely based on cruelty and slaying and it killed more people than the Roman army and navy. Chicken Chases were the default show, where gladiators chased man or woman to rape them, break them up, then walk the perimeter shaking the body, to urge the audience to toss coins for their approval. Roman civil laws were largely written to demonize some citizens and outcasts for the arenas. Favorite gladiators worked surprises for the game show when gates opened to admit them to their victims. The threat of boredom killed more Roman enemies than any other cause. New Mexico territory's Governor Lew Wallace was quite versed in Roman history, and his envy influenced some of the pursuits, trials, and deaths during his reign. R. I. P. Henry Mc Carty and friends.
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Rome's cruelty came not just from a ruling caste, but especially from a collective disdain for their fellow beings. Roman entertainment was largely based on cruelty and slaying and it killed more people than the Roman army and navy. Chicken Chases were the default show, where gladiators chased man or woman to rape them, break them up, then walk the perimeter shaking the body, to urge the audience to toss coins for their approval. Roman civil laws were largely written to demonize some citizens and outcasts for the arenas. Favorite gladiators worked surprises for the game show when gates opened to admit them to their victims. The threat of boredom killed more Roman enemies than any other cause. New Mexico territory's Governor Lew Wallace was quite versed in Roman history, and his envy influenced some of the pursuits, trials, and deaths during his reign. R. I. P. Henry Mc Carty and friends.
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Hotpocket
All this is fine. What makes no sense is why they would show jaoquin pheonix making out and sleeping with his sister.
They could have just. Said it happened. But they chose to film it.
What in the good f? How can anyone explain this choice.
Say you were filming Gladiator. Explain why you felt this was so important to get down with professional actors.
Sure on that movie the killing fields. Show gross stuff. On rambo, sure show them taking the kid into the generals house. But this part on Gladiator was like that love scene on Underworld 2. Where scott speedman and kate beckensale fall in love.
But they wern't related to eachother!
Why? Why would they. Not just cut it out and include it as an extra on the dvd or something. Its so horrible. Makes no sense.
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All this is fine. What makes no sense is why they would show jaoquin pheonix making out and sleeping with his sister.
They could have just. Said it happened. But they chose to film it.
What in the good f? How can anyone explain this choice.
Say you were filming Gladiator. Explain why you felt this was so important to get down with professional actors.
Sure on that movie the killing fields. Show gross stuff. On rambo, sure show them taking the kid into the generals house. But this part on Gladiator was like that love scene on Underworld 2. Where scott speedman and kate beckensale fall in love.
But they wern't related to eachother!
Why? Why would they. Not just cut it out and include it as an extra on the dvd or something. Its so horrible. Makes no sense.
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Steve
you forgot the blair toilet. This toilet allows you to. in a rural area. It is based on the ' long drop. The. drops down into a pit. The seat is in darkness. however there is a separate pipe that goes from the pit to the sky. This a fly smalls the delicious flavor of a. It flies down into the pit and feasts to its delight. It then sees a small circle of light. It flies towards the light through the pipe. However, there is fly mesh at the top of the pipe. It tries to escape. Looking down its sees darkness. Looking up it sees the light. Therefore it starves to death. It then drops down into its favorite food and becomes compost. The toilet was named a blair toilet, the same name as the British prime minister who the zimbabwe public thought of as.
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you forgot the blair toilet. This toilet allows you to. in a rural area. It is based on the ' long drop. The. drops down into a pit. The seat is in darkness. however there is a separate pipe that goes from the pit to the sky. This a fly smalls the delicious flavor of a. It flies down into the pit and feasts to its delight. It then sees a small circle of light. It flies towards the light through the pipe. However, there is fly mesh at the top of the pipe. It tries to escape. Looking down its sees darkness. Looking up it sees the light. Therefore it starves to death. It then drops down into its favorite food and becomes compost. The toilet was named a blair toilet, the same name as the British prime minister who the zimbabwe public thought of as.
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Donald
At 11: 45 oh my the author claims that Commodus would be locked up had he lived today. How blind can you be, dear author Matthew Gaskill? Can't you see that Donald J. Trump hasn't been locked up?
Even today's well developed democracies suffer from the fact that the top control is blurred. If there is evil blood in the top management of a democratic state the state is doomed. Unless, of course, some other power re-establishes good law and order.
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At 11: 45 oh my the author claims that Commodus would be locked up had he lived today. How blind can you be, dear author Matthew Gaskill? Can't you see that Donald J. Trump hasn't been locked up?
Even today's well developed democracies suffer from the fact that the top control is blurred. If there is evil blood in the top management of a democratic state the state is doomed. Unless, of course, some other power re-establishes good law and order.
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dsrtflwr
My southern grandparents always called it a commode. They also called their couch a divan. They overcooked their vegetables and meat too, which seemed to be a southern trait, but maybe it just runs in my family. My cooked vegetables are still crisp and my cooked beef is rare. I'm considered odd by my family. I always rendered them speechless by saying I don't like white gravy or burnt okra. They didn't know what to do with me.
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My southern grandparents always called it a commode. They also called their couch a divan. They overcooked their vegetables and meat too, which seemed to be a southern trait, but maybe it just runs in my family. My cooked vegetables are still crisp and my cooked beef is rare. I'm considered odd by my family. I always rendered them speechless by saying I don't like white gravy or burnt okra. They didn't know what to do with me.
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Dirk
Five thousand years before John Harrington invented a flush toilet, Neolithic tribes in Scotland had them installed in their houses. This was achieved by diverting a small stream into a little room off the main living area so that all waste was flushed away into the nearby ocean. You can go and see it at the village of Skara Brae on the islands of Orkney off the north cost of the Scottish Mainland.
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Five thousand years before John Harrington invented a flush toilet, Neolithic tribes in Scotland had them installed in their houses. This was achieved by diverting a small stream into a little room off the main living area so that all waste was flushed away into the nearby ocean. You can go and see it at the village of Skara Brae on the islands of Orkney off the north cost of the Scottish Mainland.
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Jose
Commodus has been heavily vilified after the exaggerated not very accurate Gladiator movie. Yes, Commodus was a weak emperor, and made many strategic mistakes, but most of the Roman people loved him specially because of his participation in the Colosseum games. He was murdered mostly because of his enmity with the politicians of the time.
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Commodus has been heavily vilified after the exaggerated not very accurate Gladiator movie. Yes, Commodus was a weak emperor, and made many strategic mistakes, but most of the Roman people loved him specially because of his participation in the Colosseum games. He was murdered mostly because of his enmity with the politicians of the time.
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SaraandStuart
You should check some proper historical facts. His biggest problem was that he questioned senate and was more beloved by people then senate. Thats what ended his reputation. Talking about his cruelty, his father was responsible for killing so many Christians, when Comodus wasnt hostile towards them.
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You should check some proper historical facts. His biggest problem was that he questioned senate and was more beloved by people then senate. Thats what ended his reputation. Talking about his cruelty, his father was responsible for killing so many Christians, when Comodus wasnt hostile towards them.
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ailouros24
the legend of the giants with the snake legs is from the myth of hercules. the gods went to war against the giants and hercules fought with them. it makes sense that he would want to recreate that fight since he thought he was hercules reborn.
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the legend of the giants with the snake legs is from the myth of hercules. the gods went to war against the giants and hercules fought with them. it makes sense that he would want to recreate that fight since he thought he was hercules reborn.
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Jerome
Today Commodus would be locked up
Umm. considering the national leaders we have here in 2022, moreover considering their brazen crimes and their elder cohorts' crimes of the past several decades. I highly doubt it.
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Today Commodus would be locked up
Umm. considering the national leaders we have here in 2022, moreover considering their brazen crimes and their elder cohorts' crimes of the past several decades. I highly doubt it.
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Geiger
I've seen a bronze coin with his profile gauged several times by intentional deep gashes on his neck. I heard that Damnatio Memoriae was ordered to be done to all his coins otherwise they could not be used.
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I've seen a bronze coin with his profile gauged several times by intentional deep gashes on his neck. I heard that Damnatio Memoriae was ordered to be done to all his coins otherwise they could not be used.
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chris
Important or not so important side note, artists, especially performance artists, were about as low in society as you could get. A major exception exists in architectural design.
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Important or not so important side note, artists, especially performance artists, were about as low in society as you could get. A major exception exists in architectural design.
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Jon
And FYI Hercules true Roman name is Heracles, named by his mother for the goddess Hera in an attempt to avoid Hera's wrath for having been unfaithful with her husband Zeus.
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And FYI Hercules true Roman name is Heracles, named by his mother for the goddess Hera in an attempt to avoid Hera's wrath for having been unfaithful with her husband Zeus.
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Mark
even the worst of the Roman emperors pails in comparison to Donald Trump.
will go down in history as the biggest piece of pig poo to ever hold such a high office.
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even the worst of the Roman emperors pails in comparison to Donald Trump.
will go down in history as the biggest piece of pig poo to ever hold such a high office.
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Kerrie
i love the information here but every time you say the name Commodus you pause a second as if waiting for someone to congratulate you on your a pronunciation
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i love the information here but every time you say the name Commodus you pause a second as if waiting for someone to congratulate you on your a pronunciation
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Nada
This exact same format of the history of a mentally ill, perverted and evil dictator ruining a nation and being removed
could be retold about Biden.
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This exact same format of the history of a mentally ill, perverted and evil dictator ruining a nation and being removed
could be retold about Biden.
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sameer
Marcus Aurelius decreed, My son, you have surrounded your name with a foul stench. Henceforth, all toilets shall be called Commodes.
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Marcus Aurelius decreed, My son, you have surrounded your name with a foul stench. Henceforth, all toilets shall be called Commodes.
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A74568Z
Its amazing how entire nations submit to 1 man. A weak, immoral, man who rules through lies and murder. Today, nothing has changed.
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Its amazing how entire nations submit to 1 man. A weak, immoral, man who rules through lies and murder. Today, nothing has changed.
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frank
I search the faces of the Gods to try and find a way to make you love me!
-Joaquin Phoenix (as Commodus)
Gladiator 2000
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I search the faces of the Gods to try and find a way to make you love me!
-Joaquin Phoenix (as Commodus)
Gladiator 2000
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