About the book: 2013 / In history it is difficult to find a more simple-minded, even in some sense naive, destroyer of his fellow tribesmen than the Roman emperor Commodus, but the atrocities committed “out of thoughtlessness ” or “out of simplicity” do not become less cruel. The motif of evil, whistled by this “unworthy son” of the worthy Marcus Aurelius, has reached our time. The Antonine dynasty ended with Commodus. After his death, Rome stepped into the abyss. Thus, “simplicity” overcame philosophy. Thus ended the Golden Age…