Caligula roman emperor

Mantuan School, 16th century Portrait of Emperor Caligulaoil on canvasunframed: 131.5 x 94 cm.; 51¾ x 37 in.<

Caligula, Roman emperor from 37 to 41 CE, who succeeded Tiberius and transferred the last legion under a senatorial proconsul to an imperial legate, completing the emperor’s monopoly of army command. Accounts of his reign by ancient historians are so biased against him that the truth is nearly impossible to discern.

Caligula 12 AD-41 AD Roman Emperor. Suetonius states that "As a boy he was troubled with the falling sickness [epilepsy], and while in his youth he had some endurance, yet at times because of sudden faintness he was hardly able to walk, to stand up, to collect his thoughts, or to hold up his head." Cuirass bust of Caligula. Marble. 37—41 A.D. (Copenhagen, New Carlsberg Glyptotek)

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Coin bearing a portrait of the Roman emperor Caligula (37 AD - 41 AD) found in Velsen, in the Dutch province of North Holland. At the time Velsen was called Castra Flevum, which was the northernmost military camp of the Romans in continental Europe.

Emperor Caligula has been immortalized as one of history’s most cruel and erratic leaders. However, the reality is far more complex and exciting.

The young Caesar known as Caligula has the reputation of being the most infamous, twisted and depraved Emperor of Rome; which is quite a statement. There are one or two others that might provide some stiff competition but, there is no doubt that Caligula, in his short reign, would be grossly excessive and set a standard for depravity that few, if any, could hope to match. He became so notorious that despite the fact that he lived 2,000 years ago, reigned for only a few years and despite the…

Marble. Ca. 40 CE. Height 182 cm.

On either side of the high forehead are the sunken temples known from contemporary descriptions of the emperor. The bust is a masterpiece of Roman portraiture.