From 180 to 192 C.E., Emperor Commodus ruled ancient Rome with an insatiable lust for power that brought an end to the fabled ...

I lean to Marcus Aurelius, who far as I know never fomented ... all the emperors who succeeded to the throne by birth, except Titus, were bad, all were good who succeeded by adoption; as in ...

Intent on securing peace and prosperity throughout the mighty Roman Empire, the wise diplomat, Emperor Marcus Aurelius ... and the much-coveted imperial throne to General Livius, instead of ...