(and he did make it clear in Commodus' teenage years that his son was to succeed him, by naming him Caesar and jointly ruling with him during his last years of life)
I'd ask if it was at all obvious to Marcus Aurelius what his son was like at this point, although I'm sure the answer is "we don't really have the evidence." ALthough I guess if Commodus is a teenager then... well... I know quite a few teenagers who would have made terrible Emperors but eventually came out as reasonable adults :)
Unless Marcus Aurelius would have had his son killed, and while of course in retrospect that would have been better for the Empire, he wasn't Constantine. He could not kill his own son.
WELL that seems like it should be better! But, hmm.
who of course doesn't bother arranging the succession, he's busy renaming Rome into Commodum instead
WHAT So after he died was everyone like "...let's just forget that happened"?
(inflation is a thing)
lol!
Didius dies, murdered, with the line "“But what evil have I done? Whom have I killed?" He has a point.
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Date: 2023-01-14 06:07 am (UTC)(and he did make it clear in Commodus' teenage years that his son was to succeed him, by naming him Caesar and jointly ruling with him during his last years of life)
I'd ask if it was at all obvious to Marcus Aurelius what his son was like at this point, although I'm sure the answer is "we don't really have the evidence." ALthough I guess if Commodus is a teenager then... well... I know quite a few teenagers who would have made terrible Emperors but eventually came out as reasonable adults :)
Unless Marcus Aurelius would have had his son killed, and while of course in retrospect that would have been better for the Empire, he wasn't Constantine. He could not kill his own son.
WELL that seems like it should be better! But, hmm.
who of course doesn't bother arranging the succession, he's busy renaming Rome into Commodum instead
WHAT
So after he died was everyone like "...let's just forget that happened"?
(inflation is a thing)
lol!
Didius dies, murdered, with the line "“But what evil have I done? Whom have I killed?" He has a point.
Aw!