By Emperor of Rome. Caligula; Emperor of Rome Caligula; Most, Glenn W.; Psoinos, Paul; Winterling, Aloys; Schneider, Deborah Lucas; Emperor of Rome Caligula
This biography tells a distinct tale of the well known emperor. In a deft account written for a common viewers, Aloys Winterling opens a brand new point of view at the guy and his instances. Basing Caligula on an intensive new evaluate of the traditional assets, he units the emperor's tale into the context of the political procedure and the altering family among the senate and the emperor in the course of Caligula's time and reveals a brand new rationality explaining his infamous brutality.
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Furthermore his relationship with Agrippina was deteriorating, a development that the sources attribute mainly to intrigues set in motion by Sejanus. After the death of Drusus (II), Tiberius is said to have thought about eliminating Agrippina and her sons as well. According to Tacitus this plan failed for two reasons: The guards in the house of Germanicus’s family were alert and Agrippina was too chaste for Sejanus to use his apparent charms on her. Thereupon he prevailed upon Livia and Livilla to inform Tiberius that the mother of the two possible successors was ambitious for power.
One social and one political reason can be named. Like all highly developed pre-modern cultures, ancient Rome had a stratified society, with a deep division between the nobility and the non-noble population. The exercise of authority, whether in the military or in the civic sphere, had always been limited to members of the upper class. Even though the common people were included in the political process during the Republic, it was precisely their behavior that reserved authority for the noble families.
After seeing to the reorganization of some parts of the Roman administration, particularly in Cappadocia and Commagene, Germanicus proceeded with his family to the famous ancient city of Alexandria. It was here that the Ptolemaic kings had resided in their magnificent palaces, but also where Caesar and Antonius had lived with Queen Cleopatra. The inhabitants of the city, which had served as an opposite pole to Rome during the civil war, staged great festivities to celebrate Germanicus’s arrival.