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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gam3rBlake, post: 7770127, member: 115909&quot;]Definitely Commodus!</p><p><br /></p><p>Unlike some of the notorious Emperors (such as Caligula) Commodus grew up and was trained by the great Marcus Aurelius and thus had no excuse for being such a terrible Emperor.</p><p><br /></p><p>His apathetic attitude towards being Emperor and appointment of freedmen like Cleander led to prevalent corruption and his selfish hoarding of grain led to a famine that caused the Roman people to riot and literally demand his head.</p><p><br /></p><p>Commodus had every opportunity to be a great Emperor and failed miserably thus ending an era of relative prosperity from Nerva to Marcus Aurelius.</p><p><br /></p><p>He is an example of Emperorship being passed down by blood rather than previously when Emperors adopted sons they thought would be good emperors such as Trajan adopting Hadrian.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>At least Caligula had an excuse in the sense that all his family was murdered and naturally that would lead to paranoia as well as a “brain fever” and coma that changed who he was.</p><p><br /></p><p>Before his sickness he was also the son of a great leader (Germanicus) in the same way Commodus was the son of a great leader in Marcus Aurelius.</p><p><br /></p><p>At least prior to Caligula’s “brain fever” and coma historians describe him as a capable ruler who was doing good things and in general the Roman people were happy with him.</p><p><br /></p><p>Whereas Commodus was raised from birth to be Emperor and failed miserably.</p><p><br /></p><p>Appointing him Emperor is one of those few times when Marcus Aurelius made a terribly foolish mistake.</p><p><br /></p><p>Even his sister Lucilla saw he wasn’t capable and tried to assassinate him.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1332485[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1332486[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Next: A coin depicting Roman military units or military activity of some kind such as equites, legionaries, centurions, praetorian guard etc.,[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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