Caligula – Rome’s Mad Emperor

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Check out my other channel TopTenz! https://www.youtube.com/user/toptenznet →Subscribe for new videos four times per week. https://www.youtube.com/c/biographics?sub_confirmation=1 Visit our companion website for more: http://biographics.org Credits: Host - Simon Whistler Author - Morris M. Producer - Jennifer Da Silva Executive Producer - Shell Harris Business inquiries to [email protected] Other Biographics Videos: Sun Tzu: The Art of War https://youtu.be/tnGSY3QuJXw Adolf Hitler - The Rise of a Fanatical Führer https://youtu.be/m1vXAPxPmL8 Source/Further reading: (Excellent, two part podcast on the Tiberius and Caligula years): https://thehistoryofrome.typepad.com/the_history_of_rome/2009/06/59-to-the-tiber-with-tiberius-the-history-of-rome.html https://thehistoryofrome.typepad.com/the_history_of_rome/2009/06/60-no-better-slave-no-worse-master-the-history-of-rome.html (Suetonius, ancient Roman source): http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Suetonius/12Caesars/Caligula*.html https://www.britannica.com/biography/Caligula-Roman-emperor https://www.history.com/topics/ancient-history/caligula https://www.biography.com/people/caligula-9235253 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/10191974/Caligula-Mad-bad-and-maybe-a-little-misunderstood.html (A dissenting opinion! Is Caligula actually not as bad as we thought?): https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-23455774