While Commodus was generally popular with the army and the lower classes, he alienated the upper class, leading to a series of plots against him.

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He was little interested in public affairs, preferring the thearte, arena and his private life, leaving administration to appointees who abused their positions, with the odium flowing to Commodus.

This included alienation of the populace over a food shortage in Rome and then a fire which devastated parts of the city. He responded with obsessive self aggrandisement which solved nothing and accelerated the conspircies to dispose of him, one of which was successful. The Senate then declared him a public enemy.

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