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245 10 a| Caligula :b| a biography /c| Aloys Winterling ; translated by Deborah Lucas Schneider, Glenn W. Most, and Paul Psoinos.;

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500 a| Originally published in German: München : C.H. Beck, c2003, with title Caligula : eine Biographie.;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-218) and index.;

505 0 a| 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.;

520 a| 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? --;

520 a| 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 thoroughly 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. --Book Jacket.;

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Caligula : a biography / Aloys Winterling ; translated by Deborah Lucas Schneider, Glenn W. Most, and Paul Psoinos.

Author/creator	Winterling, Aloys
Format	Book
Publication Info	Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2011.
Description	227 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Subjects	Caligula, Emperor of Rome, 12-41. Emperors--Rome. --Biography. Rome--History. --Caligula, 37-41.

Uniform title	Caligula. English
Series	The Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature. ^A512030
Contents	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.
Abstract	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? --
Abstract	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 thoroughly 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. --Book Jacket.
General note	Originally published in German: München : C.H. Beck, c2003, with title Caligula : eine Biographie.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-218) and index.
LCCN	2011012924
ISBN	9780520248953 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN	0520248953 (cloth : alk. paper)
Standard identifier#	40019825389

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