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Caligula : a biography / Aloys Winterling ; translated by Deborah Lucas Schneider, Glenn W. Most, and Paul Psoinos.
De Gruyter University of California Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Winterling, Aloys.
- Series:
- Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature.
- Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature
- Standardized Title:
- Caligula. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Emperors--Rome--Biography.
- Emperors.
- Rome--History--Caligula, 37-41.
- Rome.
- Caligula, Emperor of Rome, 12-41.
- Caligula.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (240 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Introduction: A mad emperor?
- Childhood and youth
- Two years as princeps
- The conflicts escalate
- Five months of monarchy
- Murder on the Palatine
- Conclusion: Inventing the mad emperor
- Epilogue to the English edition.
- Notes:
- Originally published in German: München : C.H. Beck, c2003, with title Caligula : eine Biographie.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613331830
- 9781283331838
- 1283331837
- 9780520943148
- 0520943147
- OCLC:
- 745865812
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