The only person that loved Commodus more than Ridley Scott was... Commodus.

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Source/Further reading:

https://books.google.ro/books?id=mhNUGgG2eacC&pg=PA186&lpg=PA186&dq=born+in+the+purple+commodus&source=bl&ots=_xDEXZ1TdS&sig=ACfU3U1tXbBGw02x_bn3RLtYHrErvlXNmg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjBluXF7K7pAhXCh1wKHRz-CmMQ6AEwEHoECBwQAQ#v=onepage&q=born%20in%20the%20purple%20commodus&f=false

https://www.livius.org/sources/content/herodian-s-roman-history/herodian-1.5/

https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Cassius_Dio/73*.html

https://oxfordre.com/classics/classics/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780199381135.001.0001/acrefore-9780199381135-e-4003