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Bio   You may have seen and loved the movie Gladiator , as I did, and wondered how much of it was accurate.  Sadly, it was about (mostly) real people in real places and times doing things they (mostly) didn't quite do.

• Lucilla was married to Lucius Verus, who was co-emperor* of Rome with her father, Marcus Aurelius.  Verus died before Marcus Aurelius.  Her second husband was old and not an emperor so Lucilla plotted against her brother, Commodus (the bad guy in the movie).  He had her exiled and later strangled.
• Commodus, by the way, was crazy about gladiators.  He ruled alone for 12 years until he was strangled too. 
• Movie facts:  Marcus Aurelius was Rome's philosopher emperor, but he never wanted to turn the empire back into a republic.  And sadly, Russell Crowe's character did not exist.

There's another movie version (not as good, but watchable about these same people.  Sophia Loren played Lucilla in The Fall of the Roman Empire.  It's inaccurate, but I liked it anyway. Nancy

*Rome had to have co-emperors because the Romans had conquered too much territory for one person to easily control. 

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