Editing Commodus (section)

==== Career as a gladiator ====
Commodus had a passion for gladiator fights and those against beasts, to the point of descending himself into the arena dressed as the Roman Hercules wearing a lion's skin and being trained by Narcissus, one of the strongest in those times in gladiator fights. . He participated in 735 games, claiming to be duly registered and paid as a normal gladiator, but of course no one could beat him. In the melee he had chosen the figure of the Secutor, facing his opponents with helmet, shield and sword, at the epilogue he often pretended to pardon them and then mutilate or scar them. He also killed thousands of wild animals including elephants, rhinos, hippos, lions, bears, leopards and ostriches, the latter a passion of him, since after being beheaded they continued to run for a few seconds.