Caligula

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The infamous emperor Caligula ruled Rome 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. This book deals with his life and work.

“Caligula enjoys a reputation as one of the most brutal and tyrannical Roman emperors. In this accessible narrative of Caligula’s life, Winterling uses his deep knowledge of Roman society and the imperial court to investigate why contemporaries chose to assassinate Caligula’s reputation as well as his person. Caligula emerges here as rather less insane, if no less loathsome, than his posthumous reputation made him out to be.”

—Andrew Wallace-Hadrill, author of Rome’s Cultural Revolution



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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Caligula

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De romeinse keizer caligula wordt beschouwd als een wrede en krankzinnige tiran in dit boek verschijnt hij echter als een aristocraat die met cynische humor het opportunisme en de meedogenloosheid van de romeinse aristocratie ontmaskert en de aristocratie tegen zichzelf opzet daarom werd hij postu Op voorraad. Voor 23:00 uur besteld, morgen in huis .. MEER INFO

Caligula

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Caligula die regeerde van 37 tot 41 na chr geldt als het prototype van de romeinse keizerswaanzin hij had een incestueuze relatie met zijn zusters wilde zijn paard benoemen tot consul en was van plan om zijn zetel van rome naar alexandri te verplaatsen hij vervolgde senatoren op gruwelijke w Op voorraad. Voor 15:00 uur besteld, morgen in huis .. MEER INFO

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The infamous emperor caligula ruled rome from ad 37 to 41 as a tyrant who ultimately became a monster this book 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 rationality explaining h 2 - 3 weken .. MEER INFO

Taal: en

Bindwijze: Paperback

Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 15 september 2015

Aantal pagina's: 240

Illustraties: Nee

Hoofdauteur: Aloys Winterling

Hoofduitgeverij: University Of California Press

Eerste Vertaler: Deborah Lucas Schneider

Tweede Vertaler: Glenn W. Most

Co Vertaler(s): Paul Psoinos

Extra groot lettertype: Nee

Product breedte: 137 mm

Product hoogte: 15 mm

Product lengte: 208 mm

Studieboek: Nee

Verpakking breedte: 140 mm

Verpakking hoogte: 210 mm

Verpakking lengte: 19 mm

Verpakkingsgewicht: 301 g

EAN: 9780520287594

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