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A former gladiator himself, he was freed by Marcus Aurelius and becomes a mentor to both Maximus and Juba. Derek Jacobi as Senator Gracchus: A member of the Roman Senate who opposes Commodus' rule. He is an ally of Lucilla and Maximus. Djimon Hounsou as Juba: A black Numidian gladiator who was taken from his home and family by slave traders. He ...
Lucius Aelius Aurelius Commodus was born on 31 August AD 161 in Lanuvium, near Rome. [6] He was the son of the reigning emperor, Marcus Aurelius, and Aurelius' first cousin, Faustina the Younger, the youngest daughter of Emperor Antoninus Pius, who had died only a few months before. Commodus had an elder twin brother, Titus Aurelius Fulvus ...
Maximus Decimus Meridius was the lead character in "Gladiator." At the movie's start, he's the general of a dominant army for the Roman empire and emperor Marcus Aurelius' successor to his throne.
Bust of Marcus Aurelius in the Archaeological Museum of Istanbul, Turkey In April or May 145, [ 6 ] Faustina and Marcus Aurelius were married, as had been planned since 138. Since Aurelius was, by adoption, Antoninus Pius' son, under Roman law he was marrying his sister; Antoninus would have had to formally release one or the other from his ...
Ridley Scott’s 2000 film Gladiator was a sensational tale of honor and betrayal in the ancient Roman empire.. In the film, Rome’s dying emperor Marcus Aurelius fears that his son Commodus ...
Richard Harris as Marcus Aurelius and Russell Crowe as Maximus in a scene from “Gladiator” filmed in an English forest, doubling as the Roman frontier of Germanica. ©DreamWorks/Courtesy ...
Annia Aurelia Galeria Lucilla or Lucilla (7 March 148 or 150 – 182) was the second daughter of Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius and Roman empress Faustina the Younger. She was the wife of her father's co-ruler and adoptive brother Lucius Verus and an elder sister to later emperor Commodus.
Gladiator centers around Maximus (remember, that’s Crowe) who forms a bond with Marcus Aurelius (Richard Harris).Marcus Aurelius informs Maximus of his plans to crown him Protector of Rome once ...