Commodus
c. 161 CE–c. 192 CE · Lanuvium
Commodus (161-192 CE), born at Lanuvium, was the son of Marcus Aurelius; he became sole emperor on his father's death in 180 (having been co-emperor from 177). His reign is conventionally seen as ending the Pax Romana and the Nerva-Antonine dynasty, closing with his assassination in 192. Active persecution of Christians largely lapsed under him, and Christian tradition (recorded by Hippolytus) holds that his concubine Marcia, sympathetic to the faith, interceded with him to free Christians condemned to the mines of Sardinia.
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Lanuvium
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Thinkers, teachers, and rulers whose lives overlapped with Commodus’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.
Graeco-Roman world
- Adrianus of Tyre· 115 CE–193 CE
- Maximus of Tyre· 115 CE–185 CE
- Numenius of Apamea· 115 CE–185 CE
- Aelius Aristides· 117 CE–181 CE
- Marcus Aurelius· 121 CE–180 CE
- Lucian of Samosata· 125 CE–180 CE
- Aulus Gellius· 125 CE–180 CE
- Pertinax· 126 CE–193 CE
- Galen· 129 CE–216 CE
- Lucius Verus· 130 CE–169 CE
- Didius Julianus· 133 CE–193 CE
- Julius Pollux· 135 CE–192 CE
- Oppian· 140 CE–190 CE
- Septimius Severus· 145 CE–211 CE
- Gordian I· 159 CE–238 CE
- Sextus Empiricus· 160 CE–210 CE
- Pupienus· 164 CE–238 CE
- Macrinus· 165 CE–218 CE
- Alexander of Aphrodisias· 165 CE–220 CE
- Cassius Dio· 165 CE–235 CE
- Athenaeus of Naucratis· 170 CE–230 CE
- Oppian of Apamea· 175 CE–220 CE
- Caracalla· 188 CE–217 CE
- Geta· 189 CE–211 CE
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