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Replying to Avatar Lyn Alden

Aurelius was last in a line of “Five Good Emperors” because he was the one who messed up his succession plan. The prior emperors passed power not to family but to well-groomed individuals that were basically adopted children for them, whereas Aurelius’ power went to his psychopathic son.

So my hot take is that Rome might have benefited from Aurelius putting a bit more time into preparing a proper successor and a bit less time meditating on decaying meat. The legacy of Aurelius is a lot of wise words but then ultimately the fall of Rome.

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APC 1y ago

There is a whole conspiracy theory about this. That Aurelius did in fact pick a good successor but something went wrong.

The plot of the movie "Gladiator" is completely based on this conspiracy.

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