Narcissus (wrestler)

Narcissus (born 2nd century A.D.) was a Roman athlete,[1][2] likely a wrestler,[3] from the 2nd century AD. He assassinated the Roman emperor Commodus in 192 AD.

  1. ^ Cassius Dio, Roman History, Book LXXII, pg. 117.
  2. ^ Lampridius, Historia Augusta. "Life of Commodus," pg. 306.
  3. ^ Herodian of Antioch, History of the Roman Empire from the Death of Marcus Aurelius to the Accession of Gordian III, I.i.; Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 1.4.

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