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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sallent, post: 2691940, member: 76194&quot;]Commodus was killed because the&nbsp; relationship between himself and the Senate soured to a state of irreconsilability after Commodus replaced his father&#039;s old advisors with his own friends. Everything else was probably made up gossip or exaggerations by writers after the fact, and with an agenda.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]604033[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Caracalla, although he may have had a brutish streak, was well loved by the soldiers. Evidence for this can be seen in Elagabalus&#039; elevation, when soldiers declared for him as Emperor when they were tricked into believing he was Caracalla&#039;s illegitimate son.</p><p><br /></p><p>Caracalla died because he had an affair with the wrong soldier&#039;s wife, so it was a personal score that was settled. But he was quite popular with the troops.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]604037[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Elagabalus died because Julia Maesa could not control the teen. He may have been eratic with power, but he was also a kid. And most of what he is alleged to have done was also probably greatly exaggerated after his death.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]604038[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>And Gordian III&#039;s death, as [USER=78058]@Smojo[/USER] pointed out, is murky enough that no one can say for sure how he died. He is as likely to have died in battle, as he was after battle from his injuries, or as likely as he was to have died at the hands of his troops.&nbsp; No one really knows.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]604035[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Bottom line, I disagree with your assessment that these emperors were killed simply &quot;because they needed to die.&quot; That is such an oversimplified version of what happened.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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