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A commode chair from Pakistan Museum collection of toilets, bed pans, hip baths, etc. The modern toilet commode is on the right. 19th century heavy wooden toilet commode. In British English, "commode" is the standard term for a commode chair, often on wheels, enclosing a chamber pot—as used in hospitals and the homes of disabled persons. [1]
After drinking the wine, he became so ill that his vomiting would not cease. The three conspirators were afraid he would vomit up all the poison, so they ordered Narcissus, a young athlete, to strangle Commodus for a large reward. After Commodus was murdered, Marcia and Eclectus married, but she was soon killed by Didius Julianus in AD 193. [2] [7]
Commodus appears in the Horrible Histories song "Evil Emperors", alongside Caligula, Elagabalus and Nero, a parody of "Bad". The 2017 docu-drama miniseries Roman Empire: Reign of Blood retells his story. [52] [53] In this version, Narcissus kills Commodus in a duel after learning that the Emperor's arena opponents had been armed only with ...
Lucilla was an influential and respectable woman and she enjoyed her status. She spent much time in Rome, while Verus was away from Rome much of the time, fulfilling his duties as a co-ruler. Lucius Verus died around 168/169 while returning from the war theater in the Danube region, and as a result, Lucilla lost her status as empress.
After ten years of marriage, Crispina was falsely charged with adultery by her husband and was banished to the island of Capri in 188, where she was later executed. [18] After her banishment, Commodus did not marry again but took on a mistress, a woman named Marcia, who was later said to have conspired in his murder. [19]
Commodus may have confiscated her brother's property and fortune. Lucilla, her daughter and Cornificia Faustina were banished to the Italian island of Capri. Later that year, the emperor sent a centurion to Capri to execute the three women. Shortly before her death, Cornificia Faustina had an inscription engraved at the estate.
In the midst of Disney's commercially and critically successful renderings of fairy tales, women authors were working away behind the scenes to whip up their own bold takes. The conventions of the genre -- violence, fantasy, and morality – were gobbled up, roiled, rearranged fluidly, and spit back out anew.
The plot was carried out by the Praetorian prefect Quintus Aemilius Laetus, Commodus' mistress Marcia, and his chamberlain Eclectus. [18] After the murder had been carried out, Pertinax, who was serving as urban prefect at this time, was hurried to the Praetorian Camp and proclaimed emperor. [19] His short reign of 87 days [20] was an uneasy one.