Baths of Commodus

The Baths of Commodus (Latin: Thermae Comodianae) or Baths of Cleander (Latin: Thermae Cleandri) was a thermae (baths) complex in Rome, in Regio I Porta Capena, presumably to the south or south-east of the Baths of Caracalla. Although mentioned by several ancient authorsHistoria Augusta, Commodus 17; Chron. 147; Hieron a. Abr. 2199; Chronicon Paschale I, 226; Herodian I, 12.4. no archaeological remains survive.Samuel Ball Platner, [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/Europe/Italy/Lazio/Roma/Rome/_Texts/PLATOP*/thermae.html A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome], Oxford University Press, London, 1929 (completed and revised by Thomas Ashby), on: Bill Thayer's LacusCurtius.

They were built by Marcus Aurelius Cleander, a favourite of the emperor Commodus and dedicated in 183, in the fourth year of Commodus' reign.Lodovico Antonio Muratori, [https://books.google.com/books?id=GbYByWURWuMC&dq=terme+di+commodo&pg=PA387 Annali d'Italia del principio dell'era volgare sino all'ano 1750], Giuntini, 1762, pag. 387.[http://census.bbaw.de/jumpto/CS_MonumentSearch/243429?eadb_frame=top&easydb=m07d3jkuqoni95i7apg4kaonh5&select_id=243429 Scheda 243429], Census of Antique Works of Art and Architecture Known in the Renaissance, Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (accessed 26-03-2014).

It included a gymnasium.

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  • Samuel Ball Platner, [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/Europe/Italy/Lazio/Roma/Rome/_Texts/PLATOP*/thermae.html A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome], Oxford University Press, London, 1929 (completed and revised by Thomas Ashby), on: Bill Thayer's LacusCurtius.