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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Livilla (I, Claudia Livia Julia, wife of Drusus [II])

Livilla (II, sister of Caligula)

Livius Geminus

Lollia Paulina (wife of Caligula)

Lollia Saturnina

L. Lucanius Latiaris

luxury

Lyon

Macro

passim

Mainz

maiestas. See treason, trials for

manliness

Marcellus (nephew of Augustus)

marriages

imperial

Mauretania

Mausoleum of Augustus

P. Memmius Regulus

Memphis

Messalina (wife of Claudius)

Messina

Mevania

Milonia Caesonia. See Caesonia

military campaigns: Britain

Germania

passim

Misenum

Mithridates

Mnester

Mommsen, Theodor

monarchy

passim. See also government, organization of; emperorship; kingship;

tyranny and tyrants

morality

morning receptions. See salutatio

murder

passim

mutiny

Q. Naevius Cordus Sutorius Macro. See Macro Narcissus

Nero (Germanici, brother of Caligula)

Nero (emperor)

nobilitas (Republican consular families)

nobility. See also aristocracy and aristocrats; consulars; rank, social;

senatorial order

nomenclators

Nymphidia

C. Nymphidius Sabinus

obsequiousness and servility. See also flattery

Octavia (sister of Augustus)

opportunism

Ostia

ovatio

Ovid

palace. See also house and household: imperial; Palatine Hill

Palatine Hill

Pallas

Pandateria

Pannonia

Papinius

Sex. Papinius

paradox

in communication

of republic vs. monarchy. See also emperorship; principate; Republic, Roman

Parilia

parvenus. See homines novi

C. Sallustius Crispus Passienus

patronage. See favor, imperial; friendship

Pegasus

Periander of Corinth

P. Petronius

Philo of Alexandria

Pisonian conspiracy

plays and games

gladiatorial contests

urban spectacles. See also Circus; theater

plebs, Roman

passim

Pliny the Elder

plots and intrigues. See also conspiracies

poisonings

Polemon II

politics. See also government, organization of; paradox

Polybius (freedman of Claudius)

Polycrates of Samos

Polydeuces

Pompedius

Cn. Pompeius Magnus (Pompey, son-in-law of Claudius)

Pompeius Poenus

Q. Pomponius Secundus

Pontia

Pontine Islands

P. Calvisius Sabinus Pomponius Secundus

Poppaea Sabina

populus Romanus

Praetorians

passim

passim

Praetorian prefects. See also Macro; Sejanus

princeps

Principate. See also emperorship; honors: imperial renunciation of;

princeps

procurators

Propertius

proskynēsis and prostration. See also ceremonies

Protogenes

passim

Ptolemy (king of Mauretania)

Puteoli

Quidde, Ludwig

Quintilia

rank, social. See also society

rationes imperii

religion. See also deification; divine veneration; emperor cult

Republic, Roman. See also paradox: of republic vs. monarchy

Rhegium

Rhodes

Rhoemetalces

rivalries

among aristocracy

of emperor vs. aristocracy

road networks, Roman

Romulus

Rufrius Pollio

Saepta

C. Sallustius Crispus

salutatio

Samos

Q. Sanquinius Maximus

Scribonius Largus

Scribonius Proculus

Sejanus

passim

Seleucus

Senate

passim

passim. See also homines novi; nobilitas; nobility; rank, social; senatorial order

senatorial order. See also homines novi; nobilitas

Seneca

passim

Cn. Sentius Saturninus

Sextius Paconianus

sexuality. See also incest

ships

shrines and temples: in Syracuse

of Augustus

of Caligula

of Castor and Pollux

of Drusilla

of Julius Caesar

of Mars Ultor

of Roma et Augustus

of Solomon (Jewish, in Jerusalem)

of the Arval Brethren

of Tiberius, Livia, and the Senate

of Venus

on the Capitol

to Nero

Sicily

slaves

passim. See also freedmen, imperial; torture

society. See also rank, social

Sohaemus

sources. See also particular sources by name

spies and spying

Suetonius

passim

passim

passim

passim

suicide

L. Cornelius Sulla Felix (dictator)

Syme, Ronald

Syracuse

Syria

Tacitus

passim

passim

Tarracina

taxes

temples. See shrines and temples

Teutoburg Forest

theater. See also plays and games: urban spectacles

Theophilus

Thrasyllus

throne, succession to

Tiberius

passim

passim

Tibur (modern Tivoli)

Timidius

Titius Rufus

Titius Sabinus

Titus

torture

travels. See also military campaigns

treason, trials for

Trier

triumphs

passim. See also ovatio

Troy. See also Ilium

tyranny and tyrants. See also kingship; monarchy

usurpation, danger of

Valerius Asiaticus

Vatican Hill

Vespasian

victims, imperial. See also executions; treason, trials for

Vienna (modern Vienne)

villas

M. Vinicius

T. Vinius

Sex. Vistilius

A. Vitellius (emperor)

L. Vitellius (father of A. Vitellius)

passim

C. Vitrasius Pollio

water supply, Roman

wealth, imperial

Wilhelm II

Willrich, Hugo

wills. See also bequests; gifts, testamentary

wives and women

of the imperial family. See also particular figures by name

Xanten

Xerxes

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