World Civilizations- Gladiator Assignment
Contrasting Values of Maximus and Commodus and how they reflect characteristics of Rome
Gladiator was simply an outstanding movie on ancient Rome, a personal favorite. This Hollywood film took its audience to the end of the Pax Romana around the second-century Rome with the last year of Marcus Aurelius's reign in 180 A.D., the last of the five Good Emperors. This brilliant emperor finds himself aging and at the point when he must choose between two people to succeed him in governing Rome in hope that they may restore the Republic. …
