Caligula: A Biography

The infamous emperor Caligula ruled Rome from A.D. 37 to 41 as a tyrant who ultimately became...
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Author: Aloys Winterling
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Caligula: A Biography by Winterling, Aloys

Caligula: A Biography

€35,77

Caligula: A Biography

€35,77
Author: Aloys Winterling
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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.

Author: Aloys Winterling
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 09/15/2015
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780520287594

About the Author
Aloys Winterling holds a chair for Ancient History at Humboldt-University Berlin. He is the author of Aula Caesaris and Politics and Society in Imperial Rome, among other books.

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