“Then he took off the dress of a Roman emperor and took to wearing a lion skin and carrying a club in his hand.”
-Herodian, History of the Empire (XIV.8)
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“Then he took off the dress of a Roman emperor and took to wearing a lion skin and carrying a club in his hand.”
-Herodian, History of the Empire (XIV.8)
(via ὦ μάμμη || Oh Mammy)
you always hear about caligula and nero as depraved and incompetent madmen, but commodus took a backseat to nobody in...
weird I was just reading his biography