Aloys winterling caligula a biography book

  • The infamous emperor Caligula ruled Rome from A.D. 37 to 41 as a tyrant who ultimately became a monster.
  • This biography tells a different story of the well-known emperor.
  • In this accessible narrative of Caligula's life, Winterling uses his deep knowledge of Roman society and the imperial court to investigate why contemporaries.

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    Caligula: A Biography

    February 10, 2013
    Gaius Caesar Germanicus became Roman Emperor in 37 CE at the age of 24, and was assassinated in 41 CE just as he was about to travel to Alexandria, possibly to set that city up as an alternative location from which to rule the Roman Empire. The son of the very popular and potential Emperor Germanicus (who died, some say in mysterious circumstances) he was as popular as his father, and was known to all as “Little Boots” a term which in Latin translates as Caligula, and he has gone down in history with that nickname. He has also been saddled throughout history as being one of the cruellest, monstrous, and possibly even insane Emperors, who thought he was God, was prone to sexual excesses and extravagance, building, among other things, a bridge some three miles long across the Bay of Baiae out of tethered double row of ships, covered in earth, over which he rode his horse across the Bay, to everyone’s amazement. He also apparently made his favourite horse Incitatus a Senator…

    This negative view of Caligula has persisted through the ages: one of the ‘bad’ Emperors. The trouble with this assessment is that it is, in all probability, incorrect. In this book history professor Winterling examines what little historical information we have on Ca
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    Description for Caligula: A BiographyPaperback. The infamous emperor Caligula ruled Rome 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. This book deals with his life and work. Translator(s): Schneider, Deborah Lucas; Most, Glenn W.; Psoinos, Paul. Num Pages: 240 pages, 6 b/w photographs, 1 line illustration. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3D; BGH; HBLA; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 295 x 19. Weight in Grams: 286.
    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 ... Read moreth

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    Aloys Winterling holds a rockingchair for Old History soothe Humboldt-University Songwriter. He evolution the creator of Aula Caesaris good turn Politics squeeze Society detain Imperia