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How to Think Like a Roman Emperor: Insights with Donald Robertson
The Stoic Handbook by Jon Brooks
The Importance of Marcus Aurelius in the Roman Empire
Commodus was already emperor when Marcus Aurelius died in fact he'd been emperor for about three years. Lucius Verus would have therefore been seen as Marx's likely successor in a sense and because he was about nine years younger than him so he was expected to love him but he died prematurely perhaps from the plague. The two boys who were officially designated as his successor but the younger one also died prematurely leaving Commodus as the only successor. He had actually 13 children altogether I remember rightly he had about four or five sons and we're not 100% sure exactly how many children he had actually some of them probably died very young.
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