Very interesting read

[ThePresence]

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[bigrash]

interesting

 

[IHateMyJob2004]

No one is interested in the real story because it's overhyped and boring.

Oh wait, that was the movie.

 

[cavemanmoron]

 

[sixone]

If you want to read about Rome shortly following that period, pick up Colleen McCullough's series. She fictionalized it, but rewrote history very little. Made it very interesting, without being girly in the slightest.

 

[IGBT]

..amazing read.

 

[cerebusPu]

wow..that was amazing.

Historian Aelius Lampridius tells us that "Commodus lived, rioting in the palace amid banquets and in baths along with 300 concubines, gathered together for their beauty and chosen from both matrons and harlots... By his orders concubines were debauched before his own eyes, and he was not free from the disgrace of intimacy with young men, defiling every part of his body in dealings with persons of either sex."

 

[imported_gshock]

Interesting facts.