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Title:
Caligula : a biography
Author:
Winterling, Aloys.
ISBN:
9780520943148

9780520248953
Uniform Title:
Caligula. English
Publication Information:
Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2011.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (vii, 229 pages) : illustrations.
Series:
Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature

Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature.
Abstract:
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 Caligul.
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