Aloys Winterling - Caligula

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Apple-style-span 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?
Apple-style-span 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…

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Alexander the Great

Alexandria

ambiguity, in communication

C. Anicius Cerialis

L. Annius Vinicianus

Antiochus IV Epiphanes (king of Commagene)

Antium

Antonia (II) the Younger (Antonia Minor)

Iullus Antonius

M. Antonius (triumvir)

anxiety. See fear and anxiety

Apelles

Aponius Saturninus

L. Apronius

L. Apronius Caesianus

aqueducts. See water supply, Roman

aristocracy and aristocrats

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passim

passim

passim

passim

passim. See also equestrian order; rank, social; senatorial order

Armenia

army. See also military campaigns; mutiny

M. Arrecinus Clemens

Paullus Arruntius

L. Arruntius Camillus Scribonianus

Arruntius Euaristus

Arval Brethren

Asia

Assos

Atanius Secundus

Athens

auctions and auctioneers

audiences (receptions). See also delegations

Augustus

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M. Aurelius Cotta Maximus Messalinus

A. Avilius Flaccus

Baiae, Gulf of

Balsdon, John P. V. D.

banquets

Barrett, Anthony A.

Bauli

bequests. See also gifts, testamentary; wills

Betilienus Bassus

Betilienus Capito

bodyguard, imperial. See also Germani; Praetorians

Bosporus

Brindisi

Britain

brothels

building activity

burials. See funerals and burials

Byzantium. See also Constantinople

C. Caesar (grandson of Augustus)

C. Julius Caesar (dictator)

L. Caesar (grandson of Augustus)

Caesonia (wife of Caligula)

Caligula

appearance

dress

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education

psychological capabilities

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rhetorical abilities. See also cynicism; insanity; jokes

Callistus

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C. Calpurnius Piso

Cn. Calpurnius Piso

C. Calvisius Sabinus

campaigns. See military campaigns

Campus Martius

Capitol

Capitoline Hill

Cappadocia

Capri

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Cassius Chaerea

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Cassius Dio

L. Cassius Longinus

Cassius Severus

celebrations. See also banquets; ovatio ; plays and games: urban spectacles; triumphs

ceremonies. See also proskynēsis; salutatio; and particular ceremonies by name

Circus. See also plays and games: urban spectacles

Circus factions

civilitas. See also honors: imperial renunciation of civil wars

Claudius (emperor, uncle of Caligula)

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clementia

Cleopatra

clientela . See favor, imperial; friendship

client kings

cohortes urbanae

collegia

Cologne

Commagene

Commodus

communication

ambiguity of

between emperor and aristocracy. See also denunciations; flattery; obsequiousness and servility; opportunism; paradox: in communication

confidants. See also emperors: closest associates of

conspiracies

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fear of

Constantine the Great

Constantinople. See also Byzantium consulars

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passim. See also nobilitas

consulships

Corinth, Isthmus of

Cornelia Orestina

A. Cornelius Celsus

Cornelius Laco

Cn. Cornelius Lentulus Gaetulicus

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Cornelius Sabinus

corruption

Cotys

court, imperial. See house and household: imperial; palace

A. Cremutius Cordus

curatores viarum

cynicism

Cynobellinus (Cymbeline)

damnatio memoriae

Darius

deification. See also divine veneration; emperor cult; religion

delegations

Alexandrian Greek and Jewish

senatorial

Demetrius Poliorcetes

denunciations

A. Didius Gallus

Diocletian

dishonor and humiliation, of aristocracy. See also honors

divine veneration. See also deification; emperor cult; religion

Domitian

Cn. Domitius Afer

Cn. Domitius Ahenobarbus

Cn. Domitius Corbulo

Drusilla (sister of Caligula)

Drusilla (daughter of Caligula)

Drusus (I)

Drusus (II)

Drusus (III, brother of Caligula)

Edwards, Catherine

Egypt

elections

emperor cult

passim. See also deification; divine veneration; religion

emperors: aristocratic retainers of (see also friends, imperial)

closest associates of (see also advisers; confidants)

See also Caligula; emperorship; and particular emperors by name

emperorship: acceptance of, by aristocracy

in late antiquity

in the second century

political paradox of

social paradox of

uncertain role of. See also monarchy; paradox; principate; tyranny and tyrants

Empire, Roman

empresses. See marriages: imperial and particular empresses by name

Ennia Thrasylla

equestrian order. See also knights

Esquiline Hill

Euboea

Eutychus

executions

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expeditions. See military campaigns

familiares

family, imperial

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passim. See also honors: imperial family; marriages: imperial

favor, imperial

fear and anxiety. See also conspiracies: fear of

flattery

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passim. See also obsequiousness and servility

Flavius Josephus

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freedmen, imperial

freedwomen

friends, imperial. See also emperors: aristocratic retainers

friendship: aristocratic

imperial (see also favor, imperial). See also gifts, testamentary

funerals and burials

P. Gabinius Secundus

Gaianum

Galba

games. See plays and games

gardens: of Agrippina

of Lamia

of Maecenas

on Vatican Hill

Gaul

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Gelzer, Matthias

Ti. Gemellus (grandson of Tiberius)

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Germani (imperial bodyguard)

Germania

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Germanicus (father of Caligula)

gifts, testamentary. See also bequests; wills

glory, military

government, organization of

governors, provincial

Greens (Circus faction)

hatred

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Helicon

Hellenism. See kingship: Hellenistic

Hellespont

Herod the Great

hierarchy, aristocratic social

historiography, ancient. See sources homines novi

honors

imperial renunciation of (see also civilitas)

of emperor

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of imperial family. See also deification; dishonor and humiliation, of aristocracy; emperor cult; emperorship: social paradox; rank, social; society

Horace

horse. See Incitatus

house and household: aristocratic

imperial (see also palace)

hypocrisy

Marcianus Icelus

Ilium. See also Troy

imperial madness. See also insanity

incest

Incitatus (horse)

ingenuitas

insanity

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of emperors

intrigues. See plots and intrigues

Isthmus of Corinth

Italy

Jamnia

Jerusalem

Jews. See also Flavius Josephus; Philo of Alexandria

jokes

judicial system

Julia (daughter of Augustus)

Julia (granddaughter of Tiberius)

Cn. Julius Agricola

Julius Agrippa I (king of Judaea). See Agrippa I

Julius Canus

L. Julius Graecinus

Julius Lupus

Junia Claudilla (wife of Caligula)

Junius Priscus

M. Junius Silanus

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kingship: Hellenistic

Persian. See also client kings; monarchy; tyranny and tyrants

kiss, by emperor

knights. See also equestrian order

T. Labienus

Lamian Gardens

Lesbos

Livia (wife of Augustus)

Livia Orestilla (wife of Caligula)

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