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The reign of Commodus was different from that of his father, Marcus Aurelius - the former was deemed as one of the worst emperors, the latter was and still is deemed as one of the best. What made their methods in behaving as emperors so different from each other?

by /u/sammyjamez in /r/AskHistorians

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