Today In History: Commodus Is Born
On August 31 of the year 161 CE, Marcus Aurelius Commodus Antoninus Augustus, commonly referred to as Commodus, was born in Lanuvium, near Rome. The son of Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius and that man's first cousin, Faustina the Younger, Commodus was destined to take over the Roman Empire before his twentieth birthday. Commodus' birth is particularly notable for his being the first Roman Emperor to...
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