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Caligula : A Biography by Aloys Winterling (2011, Hardcover)
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- Book Title
- Caligula : a Biography
- Item Length
- 8.2 in
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Publication Year
- 2011
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 0.8 in
- Genre
- History, Political Science
- Topic
- Ancient / General, Ancient / Rome, History & Theory
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- Number of Pages
- 240 Pages
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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 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.
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University of California Press
ISBN-10
0520248953
ISBN-13
9780520248953
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Book Title
Caligula : a Biography
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Ancient / General, Ancient / Rome, History & Theory
Publication Year
2011
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
History, Political Science
Number of Pages
240 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.2 in
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Item Weight
14.4 Oz
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Dg283
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A worthy study, which covers significant aspects of Caligula's reign and provides some new interpretations on this fascinating subject., Seeks to rehabilitate one of the most infamous Roman emperors, commonly believed to have been deranged., An eloquent and compelling study of Roman imperial history, and especially of the difficult relations between the imperial monarch and the traditional aristocracy., "In this lively biography of Rome's infamous third emperor, readers will not find the wild-eyed dictator . . . but a thoughtful argument for his sanity."-- Publishers Weekly, In this lively biography of Rome's infamous third emperor, readers will not find the wild-eyed dictator . . . but a thoughtful argument for his sanity., A persuasive new Caligula emerges from this elegant revision: not mad at all, but just as bad and dangerous to know., "A persuasive new Caligula emerges from this elegant revision: not mad at all, but just as bad and dangerous to know."-- Maclean's, No Roman emperor cries out more obviously for redemption, but Aloys Winterling's Caligula, a calm reassessment of his reign, avoids revisionist whitewashing and takes the residue of hatred as inescapable., Makes it clear that the behavior of the third emperor were the acts of a diffident, slightly paranoid youth, who lacked the patience that the most quarrelsome and important of his subjects required., Winterling has produced an innovative biography which takes a novel approach to interpreting the historiography of Caligula's reign., "Seeks to rehabilitate one of the most infamous Roman emperors, commonly believed to have been deranged."-- New Yorker
Table of Content
List of Abbreviations Introduction: A Mad Emperor? 1. Childhood and Youth 2. Two Years as Princeps 3. The Conflicts Escalate 4. Five Months of Monarchy 5. Murder on the Palatine Conclusion: Inventing the Mad Emperor Epilogue to the English Edition Notes Bibliography Index
Copyright Date
2011
Target Audience
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Lccn
2011-012924
Dewey Decimal
937.07092
Dewey Edition
22
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