{"product_id":"narcissus-the-true-story-behind-gladiator-9798198859982","title":"Narcissus: The True Story Behind Gladiator","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Vasileios G. N\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Ancient - Rome\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn the final night of the year 192 AD, the Roman emperor Commodus - the unstable ruler who inspired the villain of Ridley Scott's \u003ci\u003eGladiator\u003c\/i\u003e - was strangled in his bath by a forgotten freedman wrestler named Narcissus. Ancient sources preserve only fragments of the event. Hollywood transformed it into legend.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNARCISSUS: The True Story Behind Gladiator\u003c\/i\u003e uncovers the real men hidden behind one of the most iconic historical films ever made.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough the lives of three extraordinary figures - the loyal general Marcus Nonius Macrinus, the philosopher-emperor Marcus Aurelius, and the imperial wrestler Narcissus - this book explores the brutal realities of power, survival, ambition, and memory in the Roman Empire's final golden age.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBlending narrative history with careful research and cinematic storytelling, Vasileios G. N. reconstructs the dangerous world behind the myth of Maximus Decimus Meridius and reveals how history became legend.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is not the story Hollywood told.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is the story history almost forgot.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47889758453911,"sku":"9798198859982","price":765.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798198859982.webp?v=1781177631","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/narcissus-the-true-story-behind-gladiator-9798198859982","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}