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 authors[1] no archaeological remains survive.[2]

They were built by Marcus Aurelius Cleander, a favourite of the emperor Commodus[2] and dedicated in 183, in the fourth year of Commodus' reign.[3][4] It included a gymnasium.[3]

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  1. ^ Historia Augusta, Commodus 17; Chron. 147; Hieron a. Abr. 2199; Chronicon Paschale I, 226; Herodian I, 12.4.
  2. ^ a b Samuel Ball Platner, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, Oxford University Press, London, 1929 (completed and revised by Thomas Ashby), on: Bill Thayer's LacusCurtius.
  3. ^ a b Lodovico Antonio Muratori, Annali d'Italia del principio dell'era volgare sino all'ano 1750, Giuntini, 1762, pag. 387.
  4. ^ 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).

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