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Winterling Aloys |
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Titolo |
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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ISBN |
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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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Collana |
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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 |
Rome History Caligula, 37-41 |
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Formato |
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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Nota di contenuto |
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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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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 emperor. In a deft account written for a general audience, Aloys |
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