01009cam0 2200277 450 E60020003906720200511080333.020080731d2007 |||||ita|0103 baitaITBioeticanozioni fondamentaliFrancesco D'AgostinoLaura PalazzaniBresciaLa Scuola2007332 p.24 cmStrumenti Universitari di basesezione di filosofiadir.L.Alici001LAEC000252882001 *Strumenti Universitari di base : sezione di filosofia / dir.L.AliciD[']Agostino, FrancescoAF0000912807039796Palazzani, LauraAF00012766070ITUNISOB20200511RICAUNISOBUNISOB100139537E600200039067M 102 Monografia moderna SBNM100011103Si139537acquistopomicinoUNISOBUNISOB20080731090951.020200511080314.0SpinosaBioetica624875UNISOB03489nam 2200697 a 450 991045658850332120200520144314.01-283-33183-797866133318300-520-94314-710.1525/9780520943148(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, 37-41Electronic books.Emperors937/.07092BWinterling Aloys254788Schneider Deborah Lucas1053789Most Glenn W168310Psoinos Paul1053790MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910456588503321Caligula2485880UNINA