Caligula

Author : Stephen Dando-Collins
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781684422876

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Caligula by Stephen Dando-Collins Pdf

Explore all of the murder, madness and mayhem in Ancient Rome during the reign of the mad emperor, Caligula. In this book about Rome’s most infamous emperor, expert author, Stephen Dando-Collins’ chronicles all the palace intrigues and murders that led to Caligula becoming emperor, and details the horrors of his manic reign and the murderous consequences brought about at the hand of his sister Agrippina the Younger, his uncle Claudius and his nephew Nero. Skillfully researched, Dando-Collins puts the jigsaw pieces together to form an accurate picture of Caligula’s life and influences. Dando-Collins’ precise and thorough examination of the emperor’s life puts Caligula’s paranoid reign into perspective, examining the betrayals and deaths he experienced prior to his time in power and the onset of a near-fatal illness believed to have affected his mental-health.

Author : Anthony A. Barrett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2002-01-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134609888

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Caligula by Anthony A. Barrett Pdf

Of all Roman emperors none, with the possible exception of Nero, surpasses Caligula's reputation for infamy. But was Caligula really the mad despot and depraved monster of popular legend or the victim of hostile ancient historians? In this study of Caligula's life, reign and violent death, Anthony A. Barrett draws on the archaeological and numismatic evidence to supplement the later written record. In Professor Barrett's view, the mystery of Caligula's reign is not why he descended into autocracy, but how any intelligent Roman could have expected a different outcome - to grant total power to an inexperienced and arrogant young man was a recipe for disaster. This book, scholarly and accessible, offers a careful reconstruction of Caligula's life and times, and a shrewd assessment of his historical importance.

Author : William Hawes
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786452408

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Caligula and the Fight for Artistic Freedom by William Hawes Pdf

Incest, explicit violence, homosexual rape—all presented in graphic clarity for general movie audiences. The fight for artistic freedom in Hollywood movies reached a boiling point when Bob Guccione combined traditional and adult filmmaking values in 1979’s controversial Caligula. Guccione, the publisher of Penthouse, was passionate about taking his First Amendment battles out of the bedroom and into the courtroom. Through his determination and four-year legal battle, the film was distributed worldwide and now celebrates its 40th anniversary while achieving cult status. This is the story of the making of the film, its distribution, and its social and cultural impact.

Author : Geoff W. Adams
Publisher : Universal-Publishers
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781599424231

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The Roman Emperor Gaius "Caligula" and His Hellenistic Aspirations by Geoff W. Adams Pdf

The Roman Emperor Gaius 'Caligula' and his Hellenistic Aspirations examines one of the most notorious of Roman Emperors in light of his rather unconventional upbringing in the Eastern Provinces of the Roman Empire. The study has sought to use the ancient evidence in order to reassess the context in which the young Gaius Caligula was raised particularly in relation to the influence of his father, Germanicus.

Author : Sam Wilkinson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2004-12-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134246939

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Caligula by Sam Wilkinson Pdf

Sam Wilkinson provides an accessible introduction to the reign of Caligula, one of the most controversial of all the Roman Emperors. Caligula's policies have often been interpreted to be those of a depraved tyrant. This study provides a reassessment of this controversial reign by scrutinising the ancient literary sources that are so hostile to Caligula, and by examining the reasoning behind the policies he enforced. Key topics discussed include: * Caligula's early life and accession to power * Caligula's relationship with the Senate * how far Caligula's domestic and foreign policies can be judged to be a success * why Caligula was assassinated in AD 41, only four years after his accession to power. With a guide to primary and secondary sources, a chronology and a detailed glossary, Caligula is an invaluable study of the reign of this fascinating Emperor.

Author : Aloys Winterling
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780520287594

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Caligula by Aloys Winterling Pdf

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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2024-04-26
Category : Emperors
ISBN : OCLC:746938159

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Caligula by Anonim Pdf

Author : Aloys Winterling
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780520248953

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Caligula by Aloys Winterling Pdf

Caligula ruled Rome from AD 37 to 41 as a tyrant who ultimately became a monster. This book sets Caligula's story in its political context and argues that his appalling acts were a rational response to the times in which he lived.

Author : Lee Fratantuono
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781526711229

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Caligula by Lee Fratantuono Pdf

Gaius Caligula reigned for four short years from 37 to 41 CE before his infamous tenure came to a violent end. While much has been written about Caligulas notorious excesses and court life, relatively little of his military and foreign policy has been seriously studied.This is a military history of Rome during Caligulas reign. Caligula had been raised in a military camp (his nickname, Caligula, means Little Boot. His years as emperor came in the wake of the great consolidation of Tiberius gains in Germany and Pannonia, and in large part made possible the invasions of Gaul and Britain that were undertaken by his uncle and successor, Claudius. His expeditions in Gaul were part of a program of imitation of his storied predecessor, and crowning completion of what had been left undone in the relatively conservative military policy years of Augustus and Tiberius.Caligula: An Unexpected General offers a new appraisal of Caligula as a surprisingly competent military strategist, arguing that his achievements helped to secure Roman military power in Europe for a generation.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789004417366

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New Studies on the Portrait of Caligula in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts by Anonim Pdf

The essays in New Studies on the Portrait of Caligula in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts address art historical, historical, and cultural issues raised by one of only two surviving statues of the Roman emperor Caligula (r. 37-41 C.E.).

Author : Anthony A. Barrett,Anthony A. (Emeritus Professor Barrett, Emeritus Professor University of British Columbia),John C. (Emeritus Professor Yardley, Emeritus Professor University of Ottowa)
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2023-04-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780198854562

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The Emperor Caligula in the Ancient Sources by Anthony A. Barrett,Anthony A. (Emeritus Professor Barrett, Emeritus Professor University of British Columbia),John C. (Emeritus Professor Yardley, Emeritus Professor University of Ottowa) Pdf

There can be few historical figures who have made such a powerful impact on the popular imagination as the Roman emperor Caligula (died AD 41). Yet an accurate reconstruction of his life and reign largely eludes us. This is paradoxical. The source material is plentiful, even lavish, by the standards of antiquity. The problem lies not so much in the quantity of evidence available, but in its quality. For our information we are obliged to draw on ancient accounts that can be colourful and wonderfully entertaining but have a flexible notion of historical truth and often seem to border on fiction. The consequence is that there is hardly a detail that the modern historian can present without deep reservations about its reliability. A biography of Caligula, in the regular modern sense of the word, is an insurmountable task, and can be at best be a summary personal interpretation by an individual historian of a mass of incoherent and often inconsistent material. Where does this leave the serious general reader? This book approaches Caligula from a quite different angle, by presenting the reader with the raw material of the ancient sources. It provides over 300 translated passages of texts, taken mainly from ancient writers, but also from coins and inscriptions. The translations are accompanied by extensive introductions and notes. These are tailored to the non-specialist, and intended to help such readers navigate material that is often contradictory, sometimes downright incredible, and helps to place events and institutions in their historical contexts. The colourful and exotic incidents are still here, but are presented in a context that will help the reader gain a more sophisticated understanding of how scholars try to reconstruct events of the past. This approach allows the reader to tackle head-on the stark reality that what we read in our sources is not necessarily the truth.

Author : Anthony A. Barrett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317533917

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Caligula by Anthony A. Barrett Pdf

The Roman Empire has always exercised a considerable fascination. Among its numerous colourful personalities, no emperor, with the possible exception of Nero, has attracted more popular attention than Caligula, who has a reputation, whether deserved or not, as the quintessential mad and dangerous ruler. The first edition of this book established itself as the standard study of Caligula. It remains the only full length and detailed scholarly analysis in English of this emperor’s reign, and has been translated into a number of languages. But the study of Classical antiquity is not a static phenomenon, and scholars are engaged in a persistent quest to upgrade our knowledge and thinking about the ancient past. In the thirty years since publication of the original Caligula there have been considerable scholarly advances in what we know about this emperor specifically, and also about the general period in which he functioned, while newly discovered inscriptions and major archaeological projects have necessitated a rethinking of many of our earlier conclusions about early imperial history. This new edition constitutes a major revision and, in places, a major rewriting, of the original text. Maintaining the reader-friendly structure and organisation of its predecessor, it embodies the latest discoveries and the latest thinking, seeking to make more lucid and comprehensible those aspects of the reign that are particularly daunting to the non-specialist. Like the original, this revised Caligula is intended to satisfy the requirements of the scholarly community while appealing to a broad and general readership.

Author : Stephen Barber
Publisher : SCB Distributors
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781909923591

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CALIGULA: DIVINE CARNAGE by Stephen Barber Pdf

Caligula: most notorious of the Roman Emperors, who seduced his own sister, installed a horse in the Roman Senate, turned his palace into a brothel, married a prostitute, tortured and killed hundreds of innocent citizens on a whim, and committed countless other acts of madness, cruelty and deviancy. Award-winning writer Stephen Barber documents in full the atrocities of Caligula, and also the other mad Emperors, notably the deranged Commodus. Also included is a bloody history of Gladiators and the Roman Arena, the depraved circus where Christians, freaks and criminals were butchered by the thousand. DIVINE CARNAGE is a shocking catalogue of incest, transvestism, torture, slaughter and perversity brought to life by Barber’s superb authorial skill, making it an essential and eloquent document of murderous decadence. This special ebook edition also includes the bonus of Suetonius’ “Life Of Nero”, highlighting the outrages of yet another sadistic Emperor, whose greatest pleasure lay in the crucifixion and burning of Christian martyrs.

Author : Simon Turney
Publisher : Orion
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781409175193

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Caligula by Simon Turney Pdf

'An engrossing new spin on a well-known tale' Antonia Senior, The Times 'Caligula as you've never seen him before! A powerfully moving read from one of the best ancient world authors in the business' Kate Quinn, author of The Alice Network Everyone knows his name. Everyone thinks they know his story. Rome 37AD. The emperor is dying. No-one knows how long he has left. The power struggle has begun. When the ailing Tiberius thrusts Caligula's family into the imperial succession in a bid to restore order, he will change the fate of the empire and create one of history's most infamous tyrants, Caligula. But was he really a monster? Forget everything you think you know. Let Livilla, Caligula's youngest sister and confidante, tell you what really happened. How her quiet, caring brother became the most powerful man on earth. And how, with lies, murder and betrayal, Rome was changed for ever . . . 'A truly different take on one of history's villains . . . All through this I am seeing Al Pacino in The Godfather, slowly stained darker and darker by power and blood' Robert Low, author of The Oathsworn series 'Enthralling and original, brutal and lyrical by turns. With powerful imagery and carefully considered history Simon Turney provides a credible alternative to the Caligula myth that will have the reader questioning everything they believe they know about the period' Anthony Riches, author of the Empire series

Author : Suetonius
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780141397931

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Caligula by Suetonius Pdf

'Because of his baldness and hairiness, he announced it was a capital offence for anyone either to look down on him as he passed or to mention goats in any context.' The biography of the brutal, crazed and incestuous Roman Emperor Caligula, who tried to appoint his own horse consul. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions. Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (c.70-130 CE). Suetonius's The Twelve Caesars is also available in Penguin Classics.