Commodus And your wife Maximus : The time for honoring yourself will soon be at an end. Maximus : Highness. Juba : Can they hear you? Maximus : Who? Juba : Your family. In the afterlife. Maximus : Oh yes. Juba : What do you say to them? Maximus : To my son - I tell him I will see him again soon.
To keep his heels down while riding his horse. To my wife Maximus : Are you in danger of becoming a good man, Proximo? Proximo : Ha! Proximo : He knows too well how to manipulate the mob. Maximus : Marcus Aurelius had a dream that was Rome, Proximo. That is not it. That is not it! Proximo : Marcus Aurelius is dead, Maximus.
We mortals are but shadows and dust. Shadows and dust, Maximus! Gracchus : And after your glorious coup, what then? You take your five thousand and Maximus : Yes, I will leave. The soldiers will stay here for your protection, under the guidance of the Senate.
Gracchus : So, after Rome's all yours, you just give it back to the people. Tell me why. Maximus : Because that was a dying man's last wish. I will kill Commodus. The fate of Rome, I leave to you. Gracchus : Marcus Aurelius trusted you. His daughter trusts you. I will trust you. Give me two days, and I will purchase your freedom. And you, stay alive, or I'll be dead. Proximo : Congratulations, you have very persuasive friends.
Lucilla : My brother's had Gracchus arrested. We daren't wait any longer. We must leave tonight. Proximo will be here t midnight and take you to the gate. Your servant, Cicero will be waiting there with horses. Maximus : You have done all this? Lucilla : Yes. Maximus : [sighs] You risk too much. Lucilla : I have much to pay for. Maximus : You have nothing to pay for. You love your son, you are strong for him. Lucilla : I am tired of being strong. Maximus : Because your father chose me.
Lucilla : No because my father loved you Maximus : A long time ago. Lucilla : [smiles] Was I very different then? Maximus : shakes his head, touches her face with his finger You laughed more. Lucilla : I have felt alone all my life, except with you. I must go. Maximus : Yes. Lucilla : What did my father want with you?
Maximus : To wish me well before I leave for home. Lucilla : You're lying, I could always tell when you were lying because you were never any good at it. Maximus : I never acquired your comfort with it. Lucilla : True, but then you never had to, life is more simple for a soldier. Or do you think me heartless? Maximus : I think you have a talent for survival. Maximus : Quintus, look at me. Look at me! Promise me that you'll look after my family. Quintus : Your family will meet you in the afterlife.
Maximus : [laughing] You knew Marcus Aurelius? Proximo : [very quickly and defensively] I didn't say I knew him, I said he touched me on the shoulder once! Cassius : On this day, we reach back to hallowed antiquity, to bring you a recreation of the second fall of the mighty Carthage! On the barren plain of Zama, there stood the invincible armies of the barbarian Hannibal.
Additionally, Maximus is enslaved by merchants who seem to be of Middle Eastern descent. They look different than he does, and some of the other slaves do, as well. And he's then transported to what appears to be a Middle Eastern town surrounded by the desert--where he would, most likely, only stand out even more. The nickname clearly sticks, but by Gladiator's end, it's Maximus' real name that crowds cheer.
She's had a passion for reading, writing, TV, and movies since her early years. Share Share Tweet Email 0. Guy Dowman, Tokyo Japan They call him The Spaniard because as far as they are aware, he was captured by slave traders in Spain after his family is killed.
They only find out his true identity later on, cunning fellow that he is Before the death of the Emperor Richard Harris , Maximus asks why he should be given such responsibility when he has never even seen Rome. This would have been common. After fifty to a hundred years in Britain, for example, the majority of soldiers etc. In the fifth century, the Romans did not leave Britain en masse. Administration was withdrawn plus the legions, but I can imagine a large amount of the legionnaries staying put because they would have known of little else but Britain.
Incidentally, the Emperor Severus, who died in York, was African. It is problematic that in the film Gracchus was a senator, in the sense that it was the senatorial class which opposed Gauis and Tiberius, and even participated in their murder. The political infrastructure of ancient Rome evolved over time, and was actually more complex than portrayed in the film.
Other important political entities, along with the Senate, were the Plebeian Tribunate, as well as the Comitia Centuriata. These, along with two Consuls who would rule jointly, are the basic Republican institutions so cherished by Romans, and which emperors would claim to restore.
Commodus really did have a sister Lucilla, and she hated her brother. Lucilla was at one time married to Lucius Verus, as her son tells Maximus in the film.
What is not said is that Verus was co-emperor with Marcus Aurelius. Lucilla conspired against Commodus, and attempted to have him assassinated in CE. Commodus banished Lucilla to the island of Capreae as punishment, and ordered her execution shortly after. So then, the film portrayal is actually entirely backwards, as Commodus not only outlived Lucilla, he was responsible for her death, and not the other way around, as Hollywood would have it.
Incidentally, ancient historians are not too shy to reveal details, such as it was his other sisters, not Lucilla, that Commodus reputedly enjoyed having degrading sexual relations with. Some criticism by film reviewers has been levied towards Scott for having a female gladiator. However, the ancient sources are clear; they did in fact exist. Petronius, in The Satyricon, wrote of female charioteers.
Dio Cassius explained how some women performed as venatores, that is gladiators who fought wild beasts. The Emperor Domitian staged games in which women battled pygmies. Women were forbidden from gladiatorial performances shortly after the time of Commodus, by the emperor Alexander Severus, in CE.
It was slaves, gladiators, criminals, and later, soldiers, who were tattooed, as an identifying mark. Upper class Romans did not partake in tattooing, which they associated with either marginal groups, or foreigners, such as Thracians, who were known to tattoo extensively.
The emperor Caligula is said to have forced individuals of rank to become tattooed as an embarrassment. In late antiquity, the Roman army consisted largely of mercenaries, they were tattooed in order that deserters could be identified.
The sixth century Roman physician, Aetius, wrote that:. We see such marks on the hands of soldiers. To perform the operation they use ink made according to this formula: Egyptian pine wood acacia and especially the bark, one pound; corroded bronze, two ounces; gall, two ounces; vitriol, one ounce.
Mix well and sift… First wash the place to be tattooed with leek juice and then prick in the design with pointed needles until blood is drawn. Then rub in the ink. The Christian emperor Constantine, ca. In , Pope Hadrian the First prohibited tattooing altogether, due to its association with superstition, paganism, and the marginal classes.
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