Born Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus in A.D. 12, Caligula rose to power in A.D. 37 as the third Roman emperor. Nicknamed “Caligula,” meaning “little boots,” after the miniature soldier ...

After the unhappy years of purges and treason trials, Rome welcomed its new emperor ... Dressed in silk robes and covered in jewels, Caligula pretended he was a god. He forced senators to grovel ...

After the death of the emperor Tiberius in 37 CE, the Roman state was jubilant. The old man was considered depraved, distant, and cruel by later Roman authors. He was replaced by Gaius Caligula ...

Despite the magnitude of such early scenes as the Roman ... Caligula. While many have thought this emperor a monster, Robinson makes him a caricature of a contemporary egghead. But if The Robe ...

Enough of the Princeps, what remains to be described, is the monster…. The Roman emperor Caligula endures as one of the most notorious figures in not only Roman history, but the history of the ...

Originally titled ‘De vita Caesarum’, the book is a set of twelve biographies of the first emperors of the Roman Empire: Julius Caesar, Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, Nero ...

Agrippina the Younger was a very important woman in the reigns of three of the earliest Roman emperors. She was the sister of the emperor Caligula, the wife of Claudius and the mother of Nero.

After the unhappy years of purges and treason trials, Rome welcomed its new emperor ... Dressed in silk robes and covered in jewels, Caligula pretended he was a god. He forced senators to grovel ...