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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Blake Davis, post: 26084118, member: 91820&quot;]Well he built the baths of Caracalla. Went to the second largest city of the empire - Alexandria - and slaughtered the youth and semi sacked the city.&nbsp; However, the mint of Rome, in my opinion anyway, produced some of the most beautiful coins in the imperial series.&nbsp; His antoninianii are just gorgeous and so are his denari.&nbsp; And of course, his sestertii.&nbsp; I guess you could argue that he wasn&#039;t the worst of the youthful emperors - Caligula, Nero, Commodus, Elagabalus, Severus Alexander, Gordian III and Caracalla - did I miss any -leaving out the later ones.&nbsp; I like the story in Dio about Caracalla always wanting to look fierce - you see that on his later statuary and on the coins once Geta was assassinated.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Speaking of Caracalla, it was painful to watch Gladiator II.&nbsp; I understand Hollywood has to take liberties with history - they did it with Gladiator I but stayed close enough to make it watchable, plus the spirit was there or how I imagined it to be. Plus Russell Crowe was...Russell Crowe.&nbsp; But history was so altered in Gladiator II that it should have had the same intro as Star Wars - &quot;long ago in a galaxy far far away.&quot;&nbsp;&nbsp; The movie was so bad it was like satire - naming Caracalla as such? The brothers getting along - the scream for &quot;Praetorians!&quot; at one point was funny.&nbsp; The fight scenes were silly, the plot was utterly absurd, the dialogue was written so poorly that I admired the actors for pulling it off with a straight face.&nbsp;&nbsp; You wonder with all of those resources how they could have made such an utterly inane film - and not because of the historical inaccuracies, the movie was just bad.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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