Son of Marcus Aurelius and the emperor whose erratic reign Brownworth marks as the start of Rome's steady decline. Genuinely believing himself a reincarnated Hercules, he fought gladiators and animals in the Colosseum, claimed 12,000 arena kills, renamed Rome 'Colonia Commodiana,' replaced all calendar months with versions of his own name, and was eventually assassinated after a 12-year reign.
Also known as: Lucius Aurelius Commodus Antoninus
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Son of Marcus Aurelius and the emperor whose erratic reign Brownworth marks as the start of Rome's steady decline. Genuinely believing himself a reincarnated Hercules, he fought gladiators and animals in the Colosseum, claimed 12,000 arena kills, renamed Rome 'Colonia Commodiana,' replaced all calendar months with versions of his own name, and was eventually assassinated after a 12-year reign.
“not to a trained successor, but to his aptly named son, Commodus.”
“Commodus was a colorful, if insane, emperor who genuinely thought that he was a reincarnated”
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