A Day In The Life Of Rome's Craziest Emperor - Caligula - A Day In History
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Date: 2022-09-18
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Praefectus
_Ut ait Suetonius: _
VIIII Kal. Feb. Hora fere septima, Cum in Crypta, per quam transeundum erat, alii tradunt alloquenti pueros a tergo Chaeream cervicem gladio caesim graviter percussisse praemissa voce: hoc age! Dehinc Cornelium Sabinum, alterum e coniuratis, tribunum ex adverso traiecisse pectus; alii Sabinum summota per conscios centuriones turba signum more militiae petisse et Gaio Iovemdante Chaeream exclamasse: Accipe ratum! Respicientique maxillam ictu discidisse. Iacentem contractisque membris clamitantem se vivere ceteri vulneribus triginta confecerunt; nam signum erat omnium: repete.
Vixit annis viginti novem, imperavit triennio et decem mensibus diebusque octo. Perit una et uxor Caesonia gladio a centurione confossa et filia parieti illisa.
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_Ut ait Suetonius: _
VIIII Kal. Feb. Hora fere septima, Cum in Crypta, per quam transeundum erat, alii tradunt alloquenti pueros a tergo Chaeream cervicem gladio caesim graviter percussisse praemissa voce: hoc age! Dehinc Cornelium Sabinum, alterum e coniuratis, tribunum ex adverso traiecisse pectus; alii Sabinum summota per conscios centuriones turba signum more militiae petisse et Gaio Iovemdante Chaeream exclamasse: Accipe ratum! Respicientique maxillam ictu discidisse. Iacentem contractisque membris clamitantem se vivere ceteri vulneribus triginta confecerunt; nam signum erat omnium: repete.
Vixit annis viginti novem, imperavit triennio et decem mensibus diebusque octo. Perit una et uxor Caesonia gladio a centurione confossa et filia parieti illisa.
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Andrew
Someone would have been trying to murder Caligula no matter what kind of Emperor he had been, because that was the nature of power in Rome. If someone got ahead of you politically, you'd try to undermine them. If that didn't work, you'd try to discredit them. If that didn't work, you'd just pay someone to murder them. If there's any truth to the story of Romulus and Remus at all, that's how politics worked in Rome from the very beginning.
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Someone would have been trying to murder Caligula no matter what kind of Emperor he had been, because that was the nature of power in Rome. If someone got ahead of you politically, you'd try to undermine them. If that didn't work, you'd try to discredit them. If that didn't work, you'd just pay someone to murder them. If there's any truth to the story of Romulus and Remus at all, that's how politics worked in Rome from the very beginning.
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Greg
To be real blunt, a lot of these stories are probably a load of crap. Written by his political enemies, and written decades after his death. The only real account of his life that's been found was written by Seutonius, who was a supporter of the Senate and who by today's standards would be the editor of a publication like the National Enquirer. Not exactly a super reliable source for unbiased information
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To be real blunt, a lot of these stories are probably a load of crap. Written by his political enemies, and written decades after his death. The only real account of his life that's been found was written by Seutonius, who was a supporter of the Senate and who by today's standards would be the editor of a publication like the National Enquirer. Not exactly a super reliable source for unbiased information
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Steven
Tiberius allegedly brought him to his little island hideaway and introduced him to just about every form of human debauchery there is. If you doubt that, his life was full of one sick depravity after the other.
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Tiberius allegedly brought him to his little island hideaway and introduced him to just about every form of human debauchery there is. If you doubt that, his life was full of one sick depravity after the other.
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Channel
Even in those promising early days, Caligula flung gold coins from rooftops in the Forum and then watched as Roman citizens battled each other to take them. Great work, by the way!
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Even in those promising early days, Caligula flung gold coins from rooftops in the Forum and then watched as Roman citizens battled each other to take them. Great work, by the way!
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MassTV
modern historians are claiming he may not have been mad. Just that he despised the senate, and his actions were to mess with them and keep them in fear by behaving unpredictable.
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modern historians are claiming he may not have been mad. Just that he despised the senate, and his actions were to mess with them and keep them in fear by behaving unpredictable.
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EL
Damn I forgot Nero is his fam. Have you ever heard the theory about the use of lead in the water system that may if made Romans a bit blood thirsty. See what I did there lol
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Damn I forgot Nero is his fam. Have you ever heard the theory about the use of lead in the water system that may if made Romans a bit blood thirsty. See what I did there lol
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pallexa
There's a theory that Roman's drank and ate out of lead lined utensils. The richer the more exposure to lead. They all went mad to some degree
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There's a theory that Roman's drank and ate out of lead lined utensils. The richer the more exposure to lead. They all went mad to some degree
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Hyacinth
We know very little about Caligula. What we have is sensationalistic stories written approximately eighty to hundreds years after his death.
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We know very little about Caligula. What we have is sensationalistic stories written approximately eighty to hundreds years after his death.
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Explosive
Animal sacrifice doesn't seem to be working for some reason. 150'000 animals dead and Caligula cost the state 10 billion dollars.
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Animal sacrifice doesn't seem to be working for some reason. 150'000 animals dead and Caligula cost the state 10 billion dollars.
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Steve
Gotta admit, anointing that horse to the senate sent a message. I don't think that was crazy, but brilliant.
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Gotta admit, anointing that horse to the senate sent a message. I don't think that was crazy, but brilliant.
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