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the emperor who traded governing for gladiator cosplay and lost the empire's respect ring by ring.
means a roman emperor whose obsession with fighting in the arena as a gladiator became shorthand for imperial power squandered on vanity.
from born 161 ad, son of marcus aurelius, he inherited the philosopher-king's empire and promptly reinvented himself as hercules reborn, renaming rome commodiana and himself after months of the year.
gladiator emperorfought hundreds of staged, rigged arena matches personally.
deathstrangled in his bath by a wrestler named narcissus.
pop culturejoaquin phoenix played him in gladiator, 2000.
marcus aureliushis father wrote meditations, he wrecked the sequel.