Caligula: a biography

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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 th…

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Full title :Caligula : a biography / Aloys Winterling ; translated by Deborah Lucas Schneider, Glenn W. Most, and Paul Psoinos.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2011.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):University of California Press
Place of Publication:Berkeley
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2011.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (vii, 229 pages) : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780520943148, 0520943147, 0520248953, 9780520248953
oclc:ocn747413936
LC Classification:DG283
Dewey Decimal:937/.07092

Introduction: A mad emperor? -- Childhood and youth -- Two years as princeps -- The conflicts escalate -- Five months of monarchy -- Murder on the Palatine -- Conclusion: Inventing the mad emperor -- Epilogue to the English edition.

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Biographies Biography BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical Caligula,, Emperor of Rome Empereurs -- Biographies. -- Rome Emperors Emperors -- Biography. -- Rome History HISTORY -- Ancient -- Rome POLITICAL SCIENCE -- History & Theory Rome -- Histoire -- 37-41 (Caligula) Rome -- History -- Caligula, 37-41 Rome (Empire)