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Is Commodus the Greatest Emperor?
There's so much we don't know about Antoninus Marx Aurelius and his son, Commodus. We get the sense that he was setting up some system where two of his sons or his son and his co-emperors, stepbrothers son, would rule together. Marcus says things that there needs to be this kind of check on power. And so he and his brother serve as co-equals.