Editing Commodus (section)

=== Early life ===
Commodus was born on the 31st August 161 a.C. in Lanuvimium. He was the son of Marcus Aurelius.

He received a good education from a of teachers in the words. In April 175, Avidius Cassius, governor of Syria, declared himself emperor following the rumor that Marcus Aurelius was dead. Having been recognized as emperor by Syria, Palestine and Egypt, Cassius carried on his rebellion despite Marcus Aurelius being still alive.

During preparations for the campaign against Cassius, Commodus assumed his toga on the Danube front on the 7th July 175. Cassius, on the other hand, was killed by one of his centurions before the campaign against him began. Commodus accompanied his father on a long journey to the eastern provinces, during which he visited Antioch. The emperor and his son also went to Athens, then returned to Rome in the autumn of 176.

On the 27th  November 176, Marcus Aurelius conferred on Commodus the rank of Imperator, and in 177, the title of Augustus, giving his son the same position as him and sharing power with him. On the 23rd December of the same year, he obtained the tribunicia potestas. On the st1 January 177, Commodus became consul for the first time, at the age of 15, the youngest consul in Roman history up to that time. He then married Bruzia Crispina.
[[File:MA.jpg|left|thumb|Eugène Delacroix, "Last Words of Emperor Marcus Aurelius".]]
After a new series of decisive victories in the years 178-179 against Marcomanni and Quadi, his father, Marcus Aurelius, fell seriously ill in 180, perhaps also struck by the plague that had plagued the empire for years. Marcus Aurelius died on the 17th March 180, at about fifty-nine, according to Aurelio Vittore in the city-encampment of Vindobona (current Vienna).