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Commodus: emperor of the Roman world (r. 180-192).

Commodus as Hercules

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

• 
  Commodus
  180 Death of Marcus Aurelius; peace with the Dacians, Quadi, Iazyges, and Vandals. Perennis made praetorian prefect; return to Rome
• 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

• Column of Marcus Aurelius

Buildings outside Rome

• 183: Temple of the Genius of Oea, Tripoli

Succeeded by: Pertinax

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