04535nam 2201129 a 450 991082849080332120230725050841.01-283-33183-797866133318300-520-94314-710.1525/9780520943148(CKB)2550000000041644(EBL)731893(OCoLC)745865812(SSID)ssj0000534754(PQKBManifestationID)11337870(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000534754(PQKBWorkID)10511594(PQKB)10287170(MiAaPQ)EBC731893(DE-B1597)520430(OCoLC)747413936(DE-B1597)9780520943148(Au-PeEL)EBL731893(CaPaEBR)ebr10485589(CaONFJC)MIL333183(EXLCZ)99255000000004164420110325d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrCaligula[electronic resource] a biography /Aloys Winterling ; translated by Deborah Lucas Schneider, Glenn W. Most, and Paul PsoinosBerkeley University of California Pressc20111 online resource (240 p.)Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literatureOriginally published in German: München : C.H. Beck, c2003, with title Caligula : eine Biographie.0-520-28759-2 0-520-24895-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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.Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature.EmperorsRomeBiographyRomeHistoryCaligula, 37-41ancient history.ancient rome.ancient sources.biography.brutality.caligula.career.classical period.dark.dramatic.engaging.famous tyrant.general audience.historical analysis.history buffs.history.human cruelty.intense.mental illness.military.nobility.nonfiction.notorious figures.political science.political system.political thriller.politics.questioned sanity.revolt.roman emperors.roman politics.roman senate.rome.torture.tyrant.world history.worship.Emperors937/.07092BWinterling Aloys254788Schneider Deborah Lucas1679276Most Glenn W168310Psoinos Paul1679277MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910828490803321Caligula4047388UNINA