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After the great fire of Rome about 191, rebuilding of damaged public fabric proceeds under Commodus as received

Dated 1 June 191: After the great fire of Rome about 191, rebuilding of damaged public fabric proceeds under Commodus as received. In the causal graph this event strengthens the driver Industrial-Policy Activism.

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Context

Taking the fire as a licence to re-found the city in his name is the neighbouring Colonia row. Shared contractors remain unnamed.

Commodus’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below.

Dio records a major fire damaging temples and palace fabric; Livius places a destructive fire in the early 190s cluster beside the 192 consulship year. The later Colonia Commodiana rename is a different, ego-political instrument already stored separately.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Commodus

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.4 · verified

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

    1. FactAfter the great fire of Rome about 191, rebuilding of damaged public fabric proceeds under Commodus as received
    2. strengthensDriverIndustrial-Policy Activism

    impact weight 0.5 · Effect from 1 June 191 · verified

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Livius — CommodusLivius.org · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Cassius Dio Book 73 (Loeb English) — CommodusLacusCurtius / University of Chicago · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Dio describes extensive fire damage in Rome in the reign’s last years. Livius independently notes the fire in the chronology.

Commodus did not file a later UNESCO form, a later Loeb colophon, or a later museum label as a personal act. Split rebuild from Colonia Commodiana.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorCommodus
  2. contributed toFactAfter the great fire of Rome about 191, rebuilding of damaged public fabric proceeds under Commodus as received
  3. strengthensDriverIndustrial-Policy Activism

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Factrail. (2026). After the great fire of Rome about 191, rebuilding of damaged public fabric proceeds under Commodus as received. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/com-fire-rebuild-191

https://factrail.ai/facts/com-fire-rebuild-191

Accessed 16 October 2026.

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