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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ancient coin hunter, post: 7942348, member: 87200&quot;]Marcus as Caesar from Alexandria...</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1374939[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Gladiator is a loose adaptation of &quot;The Fall of the Roman Empire&quot; where Marcus is poisoned by eating a bad apple offered to him by a physician. The hero of the movie (Stephen Boyd) fights Commodus in the arena at the end of the movie (Christopher Plummer played Commodus). At least Commodus was depicted with a beard, unlike Gladiator where Joaquin Phoenix was clean shaven. </p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s pretty clear too that Marcus had no intention of making Rome a Republic again. One of Commodus&#039; last lines in the film is &quot;If you listen very carefully you can hear the gods laughing.&quot; In reality Commodus was <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissus_(wrestler)" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissus_(wrestler)" rel="nofollow">strangled by a wrestler</a> (and his personal trainer) Narcissus in his bedchamber, reputedly in a drunken stupor.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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