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He was left behind to act as physician to the imperial heir Commodus.
Galen was the physician to Commodus for much of the emperor ’ s life and treated his common illnesses.
In 180, Hadrian's Wall was breached by the Picts and the commanding officer or governor was killed there in what Dio Cassius described as the most serious war of the reign of Commodus.
Pertinax was attacked and left for dead, and asked to be recalled to Rome, where he briefly succeeded Commodus as emperor in 192.
He had grown close to Lucius Ceionius Commodus, husband of the daughter of Gaius Avidius Nigrinus, a dear friend of Trajan who was executed for attempting to overthrow Hadrian early in his reign.
Marcus was made prefect of the city during the feriae Latinae soon after ( he was probably appointed by Commodus ).
He was released with other Christians at the request of Hyacinthus, a eunuch presbyter, who represented Marcia, the favourite mistress of Emperor Commodus.
However, Commodus was assassinated the following year.
After the death of Commodus in the previous century the Roman Empire was plunged into a civil war.
At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Novius and Commodus ( or, less frequently, year 831 Ab urbe condita ).
At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Commodus and Civica ( or, less frequently, year 859 Ab urbe condita ).
At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Commodus and Civica ( or, less frequently, year 889 Ab urbe condita ).
* Nobles of Britain demand that Commodus rescind all power given to Tigidius Perennis who was eventually executed.
Her father's Roman name was Julius Aurelius Zenobius, with the gentilicium Aurelius showing that his paternal ancestors received Roman citizenship under either Antoninus Pius ( reigned 138 – 161 ), Marcus Aurelius ( reigned 161 – 180 ) or Commodus ( reigned 180 – 192 ).
* Pertinax is forced to reorganize the handling of finances, which was wrecked under Commodus, and to reestablish discipline in the Roman army.
At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Commodus and Plautius ( or, less frequently, year 930 Ab urbe condita ).
Commodus (; 31 August 161 – 31 December 192 ), was Roman Emperor from 180 to 192.
Commodus was the first ( and up until 337 the only ) emperor " born in the purple "; i. e., born during his father's reign.
Commodus was born on 31 August AD 161, as Commodus, in Lanuvium, near Rome.
On 12 October 166, Commodus was made Caesar together with his younger brother, Marcus Annius Verus.
He was looked after by his father's physician, Galen, in order to keep Commodus healthy and alive.
Commodus and assassinated
* December 31 – Commodus, Roman emperor ( assassinated ) ( b. 161 )
Commodus, the last emperor of the Antonine dynasty and remembered by contemporaneous chronicles as an unpopular ruler notorious for his extravagance and cruelty, was assassinated in 192.
His death took place at Rome in the eightieth year of his age, not later than 192 AD, if it be true that Commodus ( who was assassinated at the end of this year ) sent him a letter on his death-bed, which he is represented as kissing with devout earnestness in his last moments.
Commodus and 192
:: K. Commodus ( 31 August 161 – 31 December 192 ), died without issue
* August 31 – Commodus, Roman emperor ( d. 192 )
* c. 191 – 192 – Commodus as Hercules, from Esquiline Hill, Rome, is made.
Perhaps seeing this as an opportunity, early in 192 Commodus, declaring himself the new Romulus, ritually re-founded Rome, renaming the city Colonia Lucia Annia Commodiana.
The machine was also used in the time of Roman Emperor Commodus ( c. 192 AD ), although after this point in time there seems to be a gap between its use in Roman times and that of the 15th century in Western Europe.
When Commodus ' behaviour became increasingly erratic throughout the early 190s, Pertinax is thought to have been implicated in the conspiracy that led to his assassination on 31 December 192.
The Suda says only that he lived in the times of Marcus Aurelius, but the contempt with which he speaks of Commodus, who died in 192, shows that he survived that emperor.
After the death of Commodus in 192, Pertinax offered the throne to Pompeianus, but the offer was declined.
In his first and third books, Herodian mentions the games of Commodus in 192, and the Secular Games of Septimius Severus in 204.
The first book describes the reign of Commodus from 180 to 192, and the second discusses the Year of the Five Emperors in 193.
* Lucius Aurelius M. f. Commodus Antoninus, son of Marcus Aurelius, emperor from AD 177 to 192.
* 192, Assassination of Emperor Commodus, End of Nerva – Antonine dynasty, Roman civil war.
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The worship of Egyptian deities in particular flourished under the Flavian dynasty, to an extent not seen again until the reign of Commodus.
According to Dio Cassius 72. 14. 3 – 4, in about 189 AD, under Commodus ’ reign, a pestilence occurred, the largest of which he had knowledge, in which 2, 000 people died in Rome each day.
Nero and Commodus ignored them.
* Is mentioned in the movie Gladiator by Commodus who says, " Your fame is well deserved Spaniard.
Commodus met the party outside Rome and agreed to have Perennis killed, but this only made them feel more secure in their mutiny.
The death of Commodus put into motion a series of events which eventually led to civil war.
In 136, shortly after Marcus assumed the toga virilis symbolizing his passage into manhood, Hadrian arranged for his engagement to one of Commodus ' daughters, Ceionia Fabia.
* 180 – Marcus Aurelius dies leaving Commodus the sole emperor of the Roman Empire.
According to the 4th century Historia Augusta, the emperor Commodus participated in its mysteries but it never became one of the state cults.
* 176 – Emperor Marcus Aurelius grants his son Commodus the rank of Imperator and makes him Supreme Commander of the Roman legions.
For example, Roy Batty is dying when he saves Deckard, Maximus dies after killing Commodus and Godfrey of Ibelin kills some enemies after he has been mortally wounded by an arrow.
As a young man he advanced through the customary succession of offices under the reigns of Marcus Aurelius and Commodus.
In 191 Severus received from the Emperor Commodus the command of the legions in Pannonia.
Proclaimed emperor in 193 by his legionaries in Noricum during the political unrest that followed the death of Commodus, he secured sole rule over the empire in 197 after defeating his last rival, Clodius Albinus, at the Battle of Lugdunum.
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