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- This product had a total of 34 reviews as of our last analysis date on May 27 2020.
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Well the incest charge did not surface until a century after caligulas death
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Caligula may not have been mad and he may have been satirising the aims and ambitions of the roman aristocracy but he was certainly cruel and dangerous to know
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I found this book very interesting the picture of caligula painted by aloys winterling is different in many ways from the popular view of caligula a view which seems largely to have been created by historians writing after his death
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Caligula is a byword for depravity and madness something that modern historians must confront headon when tackling the subject
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Like many revisionist historians winterling dispels the popular belief that caligula was literally insane
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Instead portrays romes third emperor as a cruel dictator who goes through every opportunity to subvert and overall mock the senates delusions of equality with the emperor
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I do not want to spoil the thesis but the author places caligulas actions in a rational framework
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The metacommunication between emperor and senate was fascinating
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