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Commodus
Commodus: emperor of the Roman world (r. 180-192).
Names:
- 31 Augustus 161: Lucius Aurelius Commodus
- 12 October 166: Lucius Aurelius Commodus Caesar
- 172: Lucius Aurelius Commodus Caesar Germanicus
- 175: Lucius Aurelius Commodus Caesar Germanicus Sarmaticus
- June 177: Imperator Caesar Lucius Aurelius Commodus Augustus
- 17 March 180: Marcus Aurelius Commodus Antoninus Augustus
- 191: Imperator Caesar Lucius Aurelius Commodus Aurelius
- 31 December 192: murdered by courtiers
Successor of: Marcus Aurelius
Relatives
- father: Marcus Aurelius
- mother: Faustina II
- married to: Bruttia Crispina
Early career
- 161 Born in Lanuvium
- 166 Made caesar
- 175/176 Voyage to the east
- 177 Made Augustus
- 177 Consul (youngest consul in Roman history)
- 178 Marriage to Bruttia Crispina
- 179 Consul II
Main deeds
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Commodus - 181 Consul III (with Lucius Antistus Burrus)
- 181 Conspiracy of Lucilla
- 182 Commodus accepts the title Germanicus Maximus
- 183 Consul IV (with Gaius Aufidius Victorinus)
- 184 Accepts the title Britannicus Maximus
- 185 Execution of Perennis; Cleander succeeds him; war against the Sarmatians
- 186 Consul V (with M' Acilius Glabrio II); Pertinax overcomes a revolt of the British troops; Deserter's war
- 187 Conspiracy of Maternus
- 188 Roman victory over rebellious Germans
- 190 Consul VI (with Marcus Petronius Sura Septimianus); fall and death of Cleander; Pertinax in Africa; debasement of the denarius
- 192 Consul VII (with Publius Helvius Pertinax II); the center of Rome destroyed by fire; Bruttia Crispina exiled; Commodus appears in the Colosseum as gladiator; assassinated
- Damnatio memoriae
Buildings in Rome
Buildings outside Rome
- 183: Temple of the Genius of Oea, Tripoli
Links
- biography included in the Historia Augusta
- Cassius Dio's Roman History (Book 73)
- Herodian's History of the Roman Empire (Book 1)
- Clodius Albinus
- Didius Julianus
- Lucilla
- Pescennius Niger