Commodus (person)

While my fellow noders have done some very nice writeups on Marcus Aurelius Commodus Antoninus, what both these writups get wrong is that Commodus was not a bad Emperor because he persecuted Christians, but because he was lax in his persecution of them.

While his father, Marcus Aurelius Antoninus established many of the prohibitions against Christians, Commodus was heavily influenced by his favorite concubine, Marcia, who may or may not have been a Christian.