[All about Caligula]

Greetings everyone,

 

I am very into Caligula. I am finding it very hard to find others that are into Caligula and/or study Caligula, his reign, rule, etc. I have been researching Caligula (in and out of Rome) for many years now.

 

Wondering if anyone else would be willing to start a topic on Caligula and discuss Him and his Empire?

I know a website that has post on caligula, take a look at it

[Caligula acted crazy because...]

Two years into the reign of young Caligula, he seemed to go from admirable to crazy (or at least extremely cruel). Was this a result of an illness at the time, or was it's roots in his scary and politically violent childhood? If the good part of his reign works against a victimology excuse, were his actions a seeking out of alternate forms of gravitas for the first emperor without military laurels or typical forms of power? Did he experiment with eastern styles of getting respect or at least fear within a potentially hostile and dangerous political circle, or what?

"Let them hate so long as they fear me"

I know a website where they have a post about Caligula

[Who Killed Germanicus?]

I have always been facsinated with Germanicus. I think he could of been a great leader. He had many good quLITIES FROM WHAT I read. Also, I read he died of natural causes but that Tiberius was suspected of poisoning him. We will never know the truth.

 

 

 

Hello everyone. I was just wondering if the sources said anything about who murdered Germanicus? I don't think it was Caligula. Not sure though, but he wiould had been a young boy at the time. What do you all think happened to him and who did it? I believe it could have been poison that killed him. Not sure.

Germanicus is have been said to very popular. Also his wife Agrippina. Tiberius was jealous of Germanicus because of his popularity and assumed that the people and the senate would make him emperor of Rome. After that He exiled the whole family the only reason lil Gais (Caligula) and his sisters Agrippina the younger, Drusilla, and Livilla survived all this was youth, Agrippina the elder (Germanicus wife), Drussus and Nero didnt share the same fate. They either died of starvation of commited suicide.

[Who Killed Germanicus?]

Hello everyone. I was just wondering if the sources said anything about who murdered Germanicus? I don't think it was Caligula. Not sure though, but he wiould had been a young boy at the time. What do you all think happened to him and who did it? I believe it could have been poison that killed him. Not sure.

Germanicus was poisoned by the governor of Syria Gnaeus Piso and was ordered by Tiberius. According to Seutonious "The Twelve Caesars" Later on tried by the senate and executed.

[Favorite Episode or Scene in HBO's Rome]

My favorite scene from HBO

[Movies or series I would love to see:]

Tiberius Gracchus was portrayed in the BBC drama-documentary 'Ancient Rome: Rise and Fall of an Empire'. Unfortunately his life was squashed into a 50 minute slot, so the entire episode was a very basic and largely inaccurate portrayl of his political career. One of the most glaring omissions from the episode was that his brother, Gaius, wasn't even mentioned. It was almost as if Tiberius was an only child.

That was a great episode "Battle for Rome - Revolution" thats what its called here in the united states, it has been said that Tiberius was the first one over the wall in Carthage.