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Vol. V · Deified Humans
Commodus
Roman emperor who declared himself the reincarnation of Hercules
fighting in the arena wearing a lion skin and carrying a club while senators trembled in the stands
Source attribution
This visual depiction is one of 1,947 in the archive — a creative historical rendering of how this culture has expressed the divine. The depiction is interpretive, not iconographic.