Narcissus worked for Commodus as a trainer for his love of being a gladiator. Narcissus was employed by several high-ranking Roman senators to strangle the emperor in his sleep. Commodus was hated by the Roman government as well as many Romans. He named several Roman monuments after himself and even created a new calendar based on his image. He even renamed the Senate the Commodian Fortunate Senate and the army was known as the Commodian Army. Although his father was a very great man and emperor, Commodus showed many traits of madness and mania which proved him to be an ineffective man.