本剧通过纪录片与史诗的精彩结合，讲述了罗马帝国皇帝康茂德的故事，他的统治标志着罗马开始走向衰落。

An academic and graphic account of the rule of the famously narcissistic Roman Emperor Commodus, who inherited the Roman Empire from his father, Marcus Aurelius, at the height of its expansion in the second century AD, told over a backdrop of violence, sex, and corruption.