The infamous emperor Caligula ruled Rome from A.
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Basing Caligula on a thorough new assessment of the ancient sources, he sets the emperor\'s story into the context of the political system and the changing relations between the senate and the emperor during Caligula\'s time and finds a new rationality explaining his notorious brutality..
In a deft account written for a general audience, Aloys Winterling opens a new perspective on the man and his times.
But was he? This Biography tells a different story of the well-known emperor.
Both modern and ancient interpretations have concluded from this alleged evidence that Caligula was insane.
Torture and executions were the order of the day.
He wanted to make his horse a consul.
He forced men and women of high rank to have sex with him, turned part of his palace into a brothel, and committed incest with his sisters.
He drank pearls dissolved in vinegar and ate food covered in gold leaf.
An exceptionally smart and cruelly witty man, Caligula made his contemporaries worship him as a god. 37 to 41 as a tyrant who ultimately became a monster.
The infamous emperor Caligula ruled Rome from A.
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