Western Civilization I / Unit 7 WC1 0612 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Marcus Aurelius, Commodus, and the Severans to 235
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The idea
Marcus Aurelius, one sixty-one to one eighty, a Stoic, fought Germanic wars he had no taste for and named his son Commodus co-emperor. Commodus neglected everything and was assassinated. The Severans, from one ninety-three, faced Germans and Sasanians until two thirty-five.
In practice
A surviving son ended the adoptive century.
Where people slip
The anchor dates the Severans from one ninety-two. Convention says one ninety-three.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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