Editing Commodus (section)

=== Ascension to power ===
After that, he intelligently secured the loyalty of the Roman army and people immediately with large donations, thus ruling as a true absolute monarch, protected from the continuous conspiracies of the Senate and maintaining power for twelve long years. 

==== Marcomannic Wars ====
He began his reign with an unfavorable peace treaty agreed with the tribes of the Germans, who had been at war with Marcus Aurelius. Later he himself waged wars against the Germans, often winning partial victories, for which he also demanded honors from the Senate. 
[[File:CG.jpg|left|thumb|378x378px|Painting rappresenting Commodus dressed as Hercules in an Arena.]]

==== Career as a gladiator ====
Commodus had a passion for gladiator fights and those against beasts, to the point of descending himself into the arena dressed as the Roman Hercules wearing a lion's skin and being trained by Narcissus, one of the strongest in those times in gladiator fights. . He participated in 735 games, claiming to be duly registered and paid as a normal gladiator, but of course no one could beat him. In the melee he had chosen the figure of the Secutor, facing his opponents with helmet, shield and sword, at the epilogue he often pretended to pardon them and then mutilate or scar them. He also killed thousands of wild animals including elephants, rhinos, hippos, lions, bears, leopards and ostriches, the latter a passion of him, since after being beheaded they continued to run for a few seconds.

==== Abuses of power ====
Commodus' instability was not limited to this "hobby". In 190 a part of the city of Rome was destroyed by a fire and Commodus took the opportunity to "refound it", calling it a Commodian Colony in his honor. Even the months of the calendar were renamed in honor of him, and even in the Senate he changed the name to the Senate of Commodian Fortune, while the army became Commodian Army and so did the Classis Commodian fleet.

He also had a penchant for what was sexually extravagant or insane. He abused all his sisters, imposed on his concubines to put the name of his mother Faustina during embraces, he had set up a sort of harem composed of three hundred girls and three hundred boys for the use of his circle of friends and courtiers, staging orgiastic shows in theme, such as, for example, the Rustic Hercules.

==== The conspiracy ====
In 182, a group of members of the imperial family gathered around their sister Annia Aurelia Galeria Lucilla (the daughter of her first marriage, a nephew, her paternal cousin Marcus Numidio Quadratus and the sister of the latter Numidia Cornificia Faustina) planned the assassination of Commodus imagining to see Lucilla and her husband as the new rulers of Rome. Quintinian's nephew broke from his hiding place with a dagger trying to hit Commodus revealing his intention before he even acted. then, the guards overwhelmed him and disarmed him without even being able to hurt the emperor. Commodus ordered his death sentence and that of Marco Numidio Quadrato. Lucilla, her daughter and Numidia Cornificia Faustina were exiled to the island of Capri (a year later Commodus sent a centurion to Capri to kill the three women).