North Port also boasts both an Arts Center and a Performing Arts Center where art classes and performances abound! The accessible North Port community has loads to be proud of including an abundance of thick Florida oak trees and pine canopies, 80 miles of freshwater canals, and plentiful natural springs to enjoy.
Flamma was the name of a gladiator who won his freedom four times, but refused to take it and chose to remain a gladiator.
Commodus was the emperor immortalised by Joaquin Phoenix in Ridley Scott's Gladiator (2000). Commodus was indeed a passionate follower of gladiatorial combat, and himself fought in the arena, sometimes dressed as Hercules, for which he awarded himself divine honours, declaring that he was a Roman Hercules.