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☆☆☆☆☆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.
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.
Constantine
Rome was sacked three times in ancient times and twice in the Middle Ages.
In ancient times Rome was sacked by the Gauls in 390 B.C., the Visigoths in 410 A.D., the Vandals in 455 A.D, and the Ostrogoths in 546 A.D.
In medieval times Rome was sacked by the soldiers of the Norman from the duke of Apulia, Robert Guiscard in 1084and by the mutinous troops of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V in 1527.
In addition to the above, in 846, Arab raiders plundered the outskirts of Rome, sacking Old St. Peter's and St. Paul's-Outside-the-Walls. but not the city itself
