Why did such a great emperor like Marky Mark had such shitty

>>2925282
Must have had a shit waifu.

File: 1423901288387.jpg (227KB, 677x782px) Image search: [Google]

227KB, 677x782px

>>2925282
>tfw to intelligent to raise my son

>>2925282
his wife was supposedly cucking him with some gladiator so Commodus might have not been his real son
stoicism = beta philosophy

Great men rarely, if ever, are good fathers.

That being said the descendants of even good fathers have a chance to be mediocre at best. See: genghis

File: commodus.png (307KB, 487x726px) Image search: [Google]

307KB, 487x726px

He was too busy spending twenty years fighting barbarian scum to consider adopting and fucking off on silly adventures to the East.

Plus, and more importantly, if you have your own legitimate birth son adopting another and placing him ahead of him in the succession would literally have turned Aurelius into a hate figure.

>>2925282
>>2925335
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5j1wduFWl0
Poor marcus
Did he really not consider that last part a burn though?

>>2925623
Constantius I --> Contantine I --> Constantius II is a pretty good run. Granted Constantine II was a buffoon and Constans flamed out after a while but that's still not bad.

>>2925282
>such a great emperor
Marky Mark was overrated as all fucks.

>>2926490
This.

Although a large dollop of what prevents him from being worthy of considered a great emperor is what he did to Rome by leaving her in the hands of his son.

>>2925282

Yes, he could have. But I can't think of an emperor who adopted a son for the purpose of freezing out a biological son.

Maybe Claudius, depending on what you think his motives were -- my view is he accepted the likelihood that Nero would supplant Britannicus as a necessary risk to keep the dynasty going -- he needed to shore up his support after the Messalina affair, which meant bringing Augustus's descendants into the inner circle of the family, or it was too likely that Claudius or Britannicus would be ousted anyway .