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UNINA9910456588503321 |
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Winterling Aloys |
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Caligula [[electronic resource] ] : a biography / / Aloys Winterling ; translated by Deborah Lucas Schneider, Glenn W. Most, and Paul Psoinos |
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2011 |
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1-283-33183-7 |
9786613331830 |
0-520-94314-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (240 p.) |
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Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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SchneiderDeborah Lucas |
MostGlenn W |
PsoinosPaul |
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Soggetti |
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Emperors - Rome |
Electronic books. |
Rome History Caligula, 37-41 |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Originally published in German: Mùˆnchen : C.H. Beck, c2003, with title Caligula : eine Biographie. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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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. |
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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 |
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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. |
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UNINA9910778484203321 |
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Structure and process in southeastern archaeology / / edited by Roy S. Dickens, Jr. and H. Trawick Ward; with an epilogue by James B. Griffin |
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University, Ala. : , : University of Alabama Press, , 1985 |
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0-585-32925-7 |
0-8173-8310-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (367 pages) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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DickensRoy S. <1938-> |
WardH. Trawick <1944-2010.> |
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Indians of North America - Southern States - Antiquities |
Excavations (Archaeology) - Southern States |
Southern States Antiquities |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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"A Dan Josselyn memorial publication." |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliography and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Section I: Intrasite Structure and Formation Processes; Section II: Intersite Comparisons and Regional Chronology; Epilogue: Joffre Lanning Coe: The Quiet Giant of Southeastern Archaeology; Bibliography; Contributors; Index |
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Within the general structure-and-process theme of this compendium, the authors have focused on either intrasite problems (those dealing with the formation and structure of a site, type of site, or type of |
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feature) or intersite problems (those dealing with behavioral organization and process as developed from comparative site data). These papers, from a broad range of specialists, present a comprehensive study of southeastern archaeology. |
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