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  Caligula: A Biography (Hardback) By (author) Aloys Winterling, Translated by Deborah Lucas Schneider, Translated by Glenn W. Most, Translated by Paul Psoinos

  

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  Short Description for Caligula The infamous emperor Caligula ruled Rome from AD 37 to 41 as a tyrant who ultimately became a monster. This book 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 rationality explaining his notorious brutality.
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  • Publisher: University of California Press
  • Published: 01 October 2011
  • Format: Hardback 240 pages
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  • Categories: Biography: General | Biography: Historical, Political & Military | Political Science & Theory | European History | Ancient History: To C 500 CE | Classical History / Classical Civilisation
  • ISBN 13: 9780520248953 ISBN 10: 0520248953
  • Sales rank: 134,965

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• The infamous emperor Caligula ruled Rome from A.D. 37 to 41 as a tyrant who ultimately became a monster. An exceptionally smart and cruelly witty man, Caligula made his contemporaries worship him as a god. He drank pearls dissolved in vinegar and ate food covered in gold leaf. 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 wanted to make his horse a consul.Torture and executions were the order of the day. Both modern and ancient interpretations have concluded from this alleged evidence that Caligula was insane. But was he? This biography tells a different story of the well-known emperor. In a deft account written for a general audience, Aloys Winterling opens a new perspective on the man and his times. 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.