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Caesar Marcus Aurelius

Commodus Antoninus Augustus

AKA: Just Commodus

ROME IS MINE:

Being a Rude, Conceited Emperor-Gladiator

The Roman Emperor that could... And did.

  • As an Emperor. . . Ha.
  • He had parts of his palace turned into an arena and wanted to fight as a public gladiator
  • Wanted to be paid for every appearance
  • Born on August 31, 161 BC
  • His original name was Lucius Aelius Aurelius Commodus
  • His Daddy was Marcus Aurelius

Like Father like Son

GLADIATARO!

  • Didn't want to do chariot racing
  • Was a bestiarii, and wore the lion skin as a symbol of Hercules, son of Jupiter
  • Emperor Stats: He slayed tigers, hippopotamus, elephants, lions, and other animals. Oh, and apparently Giraffes too

Conquests with Daddy

  • He helped his father fight off Germans at the Danube
  • He reigned jointly with his father Marcus
  • In AD 180, his father's death made him Emperor!

Being an Even Awesomer Emperor

  • He almost bankrupted the imperial treasury, but replenished it by accusing senators of treason.
  • Wanted to rename Rome Colonia Commodiana (City of Commodus).
  • By now, people were getting tired of him "serving them" for twelve years

Becoming Emperor

  • He was now named Marcus Aurelius Commodus Antoninus
  • Conspiracy! "Et tu soror!!!"
  • Executed praetorian prefects Tarrutenius Paternus and Tigidus Perrenis in his Emperorly Rage

This my city.

Rome's New Year Resolution

I'm not dead yet.

  • At the Dawn of 1 January AD 193- Death came for Commodus with his billowing cape of eternal darkness and ancient pair of Roman Scissors (to cut his thread of life)
  • He was poisoned on December 31, but upchucked its adverse effects
  • He was later strangled to death like a true man and was succeeded by Pertinax

Sources

http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Cassius_Dio/73*.html

http://www.roman-empire.net/highpoint/commodus.html

http://www.awesomestories.com/asset/view/COMMODUS-IN-THE-ARENA-Roman-Gladiators

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