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	Lucius Aelius Aurelius Commodus - LoveToKnow 1911
		LUCIUS AELIUS AURELIUS COMMODUS (161-192), also called Marcus Antoninus, emperor of Rome, son of Marcus Aurelius and Faustina, was born at Lanuvium on the 31st of August 161.
		The treasury was exhausted by lavish expenditure on gladiatorial and wild beast combats and on the soldiery, and the property of the wealthy was confiscated.
		At the same time Commodus, proud of his bodily strength and dexterity, exhibited himself in the arena, slew wild animals and fought with gladiators, and commanded that he should be worshipped as the Roman Hercules.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Lucius_Aelius_Aurelius_Commodus (461 words)

	Coins of the Emperor Commodus
		Lucius Aelius Aurelius Commodus was born the son of Marcus Aurelius and Faustina the Younger in 161.
		Commodus appears on the obverse of this coin wearing the laurel crown and is surrounded by the legend Marcus COMMODVS ANTONINVS AVGustus.
		Commodus received the title “Britannicus” after the restoration of the Antonine Wall which had been overrun, although it was actually Commodus’ general, Ulpius Marcellus, who restored it.
	www.usask.ca /antiquities/coins/commodus.html (977 words)

	Commodus
		Commodus (Marcus Aurelius Commodus Antoninus) (August 31, 161 - December 31, 192) (reigned 180-192) is often considered to be one of the worst Roman Emperors, and his reign brought to a close the era of the five good emperors.
		The son of the popular and successful Marcus Aurelius, his accession to the throne upon the death of his father was at first seen as a hopeful sign by the people of Roman Empire.
		Commodus also had a passion for gladiatoral combat, which he took so far as to take to the arena himself, dressed as a gladiator.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/co/Commodus.html (492 words)

	Commodus
		Commodus was the son of the popular and successful Marcus Aurelius.
		Commodus demanded to be worshipped as a god, and he neglected matters of state while dallying with a harem of some 300 women.
		A year later, Commodus was strangled in his sleep by the wrestler Narcissus a day before he planned to march into the Senate dressed as a gladiator to take office as Consul.
	www.ufaqs.com /wiki/en/co/Commodus.htm (833 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Commodus
		Commodus was born as Lucius Aelius Aurelius Commodus in Lanuvium, on the 31st of August 161, as the son of the reigning emperor Marcus Aurelius.
		On October 12, 166, Commodus was made Caesar together with his younger brother Marcus Annius Verus; the latter also died in 169, having failed to recover from an operation, which left Commodus as Marcus Aurelius’ sole surviving son.
		Commodus is known to have been at Carnuntum, Marcus Aurelius’ headquarters during the Marcomannic Wars, in 172; it was presumably there that, on 15 October 172, he was given the victory title Germanicus in the presence of the army.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Commodus (964 words)

	Commodus - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Commodus, Lucius Aelius Aurelius (161-192), Roman emperor (180-92).
		Lucius Aelius Aurelius Commodus was born at Lanuvium, the son of Emperor...
		Aurelius, Marcus, full name Marcus Aelius Aurelius Antoninus (121-180), Roman emperor (161-180) and Stoic philosopher.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /Commodus.html (66 words)

	Detail Page
		Marcus Aurelius Commodus Antoninus; Lucius Aelius Aurelius Commodus
		Commodus was not satisfied with these deaths and became convinced that one of his two prefects of the Praetorian Guard, Tarrutenius Paternus, had also been a member of the conspiracy.
		Commodus' body was placed in the mausoleum of Hadrian as the Senate greeted the news of his death with glee.
	www.fofweb.com /Onfiles/Ancient/AncientDetail.asp?iPin=ROME0407 (866 words)

	Commodus - Article from FactBug.org - the fast Wikipedia mirror site
		Marcus Aurelius Commodus Antoninus (originally Lucius Aelius Aurelius Commodus) (August 31, 161–December 31, 192 A.D.) was a Roman Emperor who ruled from 180 to 192 A.D. He is often considered to have been one of the worst Roman Emperors, and his reign brought to a close the era of the "five good emperors".
		The months of the calendar were all renamed in his honor (Lucius, Aelius, Aurelius, Commodus, Augustus, Herculeus, Romanus, Exsuperatorius, Amazonius, Invictus, Felix, Pius http://www.roman-emperors.org/commod.htm), and the senate was renamed as the Commodian Fortunate Senate.
		A year later, Commodus was strangled in his sleep (by the wrestler Narcissus, a partial model for Maximus Decimus Meridius of the movie Gladiator), a day before he planned to march into the Senate dressed as a gladiator to take office as a consul.
	www.factbug.org /cgi-bin/a.cgi?a=44324 (650 words)

	Marcus Aurelius
		After the death of his first adopted son, Aelius Verus, Hadrian appointed Antoninus Pius his successor on the condition that Antoninus in turn would adopt Marcus Annius Verus, the son of his wife's brother, and Lucius, son of Aelius Verus, and arrange for them to be next in line.
		Commodus was a political and military outsider, as well as an extreme egotist.
		A well preserved bronze equestrian sculpture of Marcus Aurelius, which during the Middle Ages had stood in the Lateran Palace in Rome, was relocated in 1538 to the Piazza del Campidoglio (Capitoline Hill); currently the original is inside the Musei Capitolini, while a copy is on display in the square.
	www.crystalinks.com /marcusaurelius.html (856 words)

	Commodus - MSN Encarta
		Lucius Aelius Aurelius Commodus (161-192), Roman emperor (180-92).
		Lucius Aelius Aurelius Commodus was born at Lanuvium, the son of Emperor Marcus Aurelius.
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	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761575948/Commodus_Lucius_Aelius_Aurelius.html (103 words)

	Roman Emperor List
		Marcus Aurelius Commodus Antoninus / Aurelius Commodus Antoninus Augustus
		Marcus Aurelius Valerius Claudius / Imperator Caesar Marcus Aurelius Claudius Pius Felix Invictus Augustus
		Marcus Aurelius Quintillus / Imperator Caesar Marcus Aurelius Claudius Quintillus Invictus Pius Felix Augustus
	www.unrv.com /government/emperor.php (978 words)

	Roman Emperors - DIR Lucius Verus
		Lucius Ceionius Commodus, the future Lucius Verus, was the son of Lucius Aelius Caesar, the Emperor Hadrian's first choice as a successor.
		Lucius had a tavern built in his house where he spent his post-dinner hours with a wide spectrum of acquaintances to gamble all night, or to eat and drink until he fell asleep and had to be carried to bed.
		Lucius participated in the first campaign although he was not given the leadership assignment he had abused during the Parthian War.
	www.roman-emperors.org /lverus.htm (2610 words)

	Roman Civilization Bates College Winter 2002 - M. Imber
		After Marcus Aurelius died (probably of the plague) on the Danube in 180, Commodus who (contrary to the movie) was present on the frontier, ended Rome's German wars by making important strategic concessions to the German tribes.
		When Commodus led the troops in a triumph through the streets of Rome seven months after his father's death, he was welcomed as a hero.
		Commodus had barely sat down on his throne when his sister led a senatorial conspiracy to assassinate him in 182.
	abacus.bates.edu /~mimber/Rciv02/w12c2.lec.htm (558 words)

	Aurelius Marcus - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Lucius Aelius Aurelius Commodus was born at Lanuvium, the son of Emperor...
		Imperator Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus (April 26, 121 March 17, 180) was Roman Emperor from 161 to his death.
		The philosophy of the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius can be found in a collection of personal writings known as the Meditations.
	encarta.msn.com /Aurelius_Marcus.html (220 words)

	Gladiator: The Real Story
		Commodus, whose full name was Caesar Marcus Aurelius Commodus Antoninus Augustus, was proclaimed Caesar at age 5 and joint emperor (co-Augustus) at the age of 17, in 177 CE, by his father, Marcus Aurelius.
		Commodus was, as depicted in Gladiator, present with his father during the Danubian wars, and yes, this is where Marcus Aurelius died.
		Commodus claimed to be descended from the God Hercules, and even began to dress like him, wearing lion skins and carrying a club.
	www.exovedate.com /the_real_gladiator_one.html (2479 words)

	Detail Page
		Co-emperor with Marcus Aurelius from 161 to 169.
		Born Lucius Ceionius Commodus, he was the son of Lucius Aelius Caesar, the adopted heir of Hadrian.
		With the new name of Lucius Aurelius Verus, or Lucius Verus, he became the political equal of Marcus Aurelius—but was never able to overcome the widely held view that he enjoyed a life of rest and recreation.
	www.fofweb.com /Onfiles/Ancient/AncientDetail.asp?iPin=ROME1839 (390 words)

	Biography of Marcus Aurelius
		He was able to secure the succession for his son Commodus, who he made co-emperor in his own lifetime (in 177), though the choice may have been unfortunate.
		Commodus was a political and military outsider, as well as an extreme egotist.
		For this reason, Aurelius' death is often held to have been the end of the Pax Romana.
	www.greatest-philosophers.com /aurelius_books.php (588 words)

	MarcusAureliusOV
		Marcus Aurelius 161 - 180 A.D. Marcus Annius Verus was born at Rome on the 26th of April 121 AD as the son of Annius Verus and Domitia Lucilla.
		It would take Marcus Aurelius and his decease ridden armies several years of intense fighting and even a battle on the frozen surface of the Danube to drive back these invaders.
		In 166 AD during Marcus Aurelius' reign the first meeting on record between the Roman and Chinese empire took place as a delegation from Rome laden with gifts was received at the Chinese capital Luoyang by emperor Huan of the Han dynasty.
	www.xs4all.nl /~sp88k/Coin/Traveler/Overviews/MarcusAureliusOV.htm (1883 words)

	Emperor Commodus
		The fact that his father, Marcus Aurelius, was a popular and successful ruler may have raised the precedent that Commodus had to live up to.
		At the age of five Commodus was named Caesar, and at the age of seventeen he became co-Augustus with his father.
		As Commodus' reign continued it became clearer that the ruler was mentally instable.
	www.hyperhistory.net /apwh/bios/b2commodesch.htm (741 words)

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		Commodus (Lucius Aelius Aurelius Commodus), 161—192, Roman emperor (180—192), son and successor of Marcus Aurelius.
		The emperor known as Marcus Aurelius was born M. Annius Verus on 26/04/121, the son of M. Annius Verus and Domitia Lucilla.
		Marcus Aurelius' son Commodus' full name was M. Aurelius Commodus Antoninus, the name Commodus no doubt having derived from and given in memory of his father's co-emperor Lucius Verus, who died in 169.
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	Political Film Society - Gladiator
		In 183, Commodus escaped death at the hands of assassins who attacked him at the instigation of his sister Lucilia and a large group of senators, whereupon he put many distinguished Romans to death on charges of being implicated in the conspiracy.
		Finally, in 192 Commodus was murdered by the wrestler Narcissus after the emperor’s mistress, his chamberlain, and the prefect of praetorians found their names on the imperial execution list.
		When Marcus Aurelius discloses his plan of succession to his son Commodus (played by Joaquin Phoenix), the latter kills his father in order to ensure his inheritance and orders the execution of Maximus and his loyalists.
	www.geocities.com /~polfilms/gladiator.html (374 words)

	Commodus
		Commodus was portrayed on coins as Caesar in 175 AD at age 14.
		Coins dated to this year dated to TRP V can be separated by Commodus' assumption of the praenomen Marcus (M) in place of his original Lucius (L) occurring at the death of his father.
		Beyond declaring himself to be another among the gods, Commodus identified himself as the living embodiment of a specific god, the Roman Hercules, and he issued coins to prove it.
	dougsmith.ancients.info /comm.html (3463 words)

	Commodus
		Executive summary: Roman Emperor, 177-192 AD Lucius Aelius Aurelius Commodus, also called Marcus Antoninus, emperor of Rome, son of Marcus Aurelius and Faustina, was born at Lanuvium on the 31st of August 161.
		On the death of Aurelius, whom he had accompanied in the war against the Quadi and Marcomanni, he hastily concluded peace and hurried back to Rome (180).
		In 1874 a statue of Commodus was dug up at Rome, in which he is represented as Hercules -- a lion's skin on his head, a club in his right and the apples of the Hesperides in his left hand.
	www.nndb.com /people/985/000087724 (430 words)

	Love Deprived
		Commodus would never forget the way he must have looked, standing there before his enemy whilst the latter revealed himself in the arena, that day, all of Rome watching, his eyes wide, his lower lip trembling involuntarily, his throat suddenly too dry to manage speech, cold sweat beading on his forehead.
		Commodus was supposed to be the most powerful man in the entire world, and yet he felt just the opposite.
		Commodus stormed over to the model of the Colosseum that rested on a table in a far corner of his bed chamber.
	lyssa740.tripod.com /fanfic1.htm (1384 words)

	Who was Commodus?/The Real Story
		The slayer of wild beasts, Hercules, was the mythical symbol of Commodus' rule, as protector of the Empire.
		Commodus wanted there to be no doubt that this "Golden Age" had been achieved through his munificence as Nobilissimus Princeps.
		Commodus was the first and last in the Antonine dynasty to change the names of the months.
	moviegladiator.tripod.com /wwcom.html (1019 words)

	Commodus - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Commodus (Lucius Aelius Aurelius Commodus), 161-192, Roman emperor (180-192), son and successor of Marcus Aurelius.
		In 180, reversing his father's foreign policy, he concluded peace with the German and the Sarmatian tribes and returned to his licentious pleasures in Rome.
		Many plots to assassinate him failed, but eventually, on the order of his advisers, he was strangled by a wrestler.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-commodus.html (257 words)

	Commodus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The months of the calendar were all named in his honour (Lucius, Aelius, Aurelius, Commodus, Augustus, Herculeus, Romanus, Exsuperatorius, Amazonius, Invictus, Felix, Pius [1]), and the Senate was named as the Commodian Fortunate Senate.
		His title was succeeded by Pertinax, whose reign was short lived, being the first to fall victim to the Year of the Five Emperors.
		Consul of the Roman Empire with Lucius Antistius Burrus
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Commodus (1176 words)

	Commodus - Marcus Aurelius Commodus Antoninus AD 180 - 192
		Marcus Aurelius Commodus Antoninus was born at Lanuvium in Italy on August 31st AD161, the son of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius and his wife Faustina the Younger.
		Commodus spent most of his teenage years accompanying his father on his campaigns against the Quadi and the Marcomanni, two large Germanic tribes on the Danubian frontier.
		The coins of Commodus from AD183 onwards often have the legend 'Munificentia Augusta' (Munificence of the Augustus), indicating that generosity was a part of his imperial intentions.
	www.24carat.co.uk /commodus.html (1251 words)

	Lucius Aelius Verus - Wikipedia
		Lucius Aelius Verus (130-169) was de zoon van Lucius Aelius Caesar en medekeizer van Marcus Aurelius van 161 tot 169.
		Voorwaarde was evenwel dat hij twee opvolgers zou adopteren, namelijk Marcus Aurelius en Lucius, de 7-jarige zoon van Aelius.
		Lucius veranderde zijn naam tot Lucius Aurelius Verus en verloofde zich met de 12-jarige Lucilla, dochter van Marcus Aurelius.
	nl.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lucius_Verus (423 words)

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