{"product_id":"caligula-a-biography-paperback","title":"Caligula: A Biography - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAloys Winterling\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eDeborah Lucas Schneider\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator), \u003cb\u003eGlenn W. Most\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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? \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eCaligula 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e--Andrew Wallace-Hadrill, author of \u003ci\u003eRome's Cultural Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAloys Winterling\u003c\/b\u003e holds a chair for Ancient History at Humboldt-University Berlin. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eAula Caesaris\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePolitics and Society in Imperial Rome\u003c\/i\u003e, among other books.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.2 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 15, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51761844060448,"sku":"9780520287594","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/ec89e7050108eaccebcd9642c0e83f2f.webp?v=1780214301","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/caligula-a-biography-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}