And, of course, he was stark, raving mad. Emperor of Rome Caligula Gaius Iulius Caesar Germanicus Caligula. Everybody 'knows', after all, of how he threw obscene orgies, had sex with his sisters and was an ingenious and sadistic torturer. Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus Gaius Julius Caesar Germanicus, Emperor of. No list of the worst Roman emperors would be complete without Caligula. Tiberius invited Germanicuss son Caligula to join him on Capri. The youngest son of the war hero, Germanicus, Gaius Caesar had grown up around soldiers and his nickname, Caligula, meaning 'little boots,' had stuck. AD 4 21 February Gaius Caesar died in Lycia from wounds suffered in battle. Then there was Nero, whose orgies and tyrannical excesses were notorious. 60 BC the consul Julius Caesar and the censor Marcus Licinius Crassus. There was the brutally egotistical Commodus, who moonlighted as a gladiator in the Colosseum, and the bizarre Elagabulus, who dressed in women’s clothing and got about the Palatine in chariots pulled by slave girls. During his account of Augustus activities in the east that year, Dio (54.8.5) briefly notes that Julia gave birth to a boy who was named Gaius and that a permanent annual sacrifice was established on his birthday. Buy Posterazzi Caligula Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus 1241Ad Roman Emperor From The Book Crabbs Historical Dictionary Published 1825 Poster Print. The Roman Empire produced some spectacularly bad emperors over the centuries. Gaius Julius Caesar, as he was known following his adoption by Augustus in 17BC, was born sometime in 20BC. Reigned: March AD 37 until his death in January AD 41Ĭause of death: He was assassinated by members of the Praetorian Guard, possibly in collusion with the Senate. Among the most famous incidents of his reign, he allegedly tried to make his horse a consul and was said to have declared war on the god of the sea, Neptune. Earning the nickname Caligula – 'Little Boots' – in childhood, he would be immortalised as one of Rome's cruellest and most erratic leaders, even though he was only emperor for four years. Known for: Though he ruled Rome as Emperor for only four years, Caligula has been immortalised as one of history’s most cruel and erratic leaders. The fourth of the 12 Caesars, Caligula officially, Gaius Julius Caesar Germanicus was a capricious, combustible first-century populist remembered, perhaps unfairly, as the empire’s. Caligula earned his nickname, meaning little boots, as a boy, from.
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Full name: Gaius Caesar Augustus Germanicus Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicusnicknamed Caligulawas Emperor from 37 to 41 CE.
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