The True Story of Caligula.
Beautiful Letters| N° d'inventaire | 12312 |
| Format | 11 x 18 |
| Détails | 224 p., paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 2008 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782251040004 |
Rome. Caligula (12-41), became emperor at the age of 25 and quickly descended into a bloody despotism. He was assassinated. He left behind the image of a decadent megalomaniac, prone to debauchery and crimes of all kinds. When he wasn't raping the senators' wives, he had incestuous relationships with his sisters and had most of his relatives murdered or banished. Testimonies abound, many of which have built a dark legend around the emperor. Some portray him as a madman who thought he was Jupiter, the offspring of inbreeding practiced by the Julio-Claudian dynasty; others as a poor monarch abandoned to the intoxication of his overly vast power by a corrupt and cowardly Senate. Who was he? It's up to you to judge, thanks to the testimonies of Cassius Dio, Suetonius, Seneca, Pliny the Elder, Philo of Alexandria and Flavius Josephus.
Rome. Caligula (12-41), became emperor at the age of 25 and quickly descended into a bloody despotism. He was assassinated. He left behind the image of a decadent megalomaniac, prone to debauchery and crimes of all kinds. When he wasn't raping the senators' wives, he had incestuous relationships with his sisters and had most of his relatives murdered or banished. Testimonies abound, many of which have built a dark legend around the emperor. Some portray him as a madman who thought he was Jupiter, the offspring of inbreeding practiced by the Julio-Claudian dynasty; others as a poor monarch abandoned to the intoxication of his overly vast power by a corrupt and cowardly Senate. Who was he? It's up to you to judge, thanks to the testimonies of Cassius Dio, Suetonius, Seneca, Pliny the Elder, Philo of Alexandria and Flavius Josephus.