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Caligula was born in Antium on 31 August AD 12, the third of six surviving children of Germanicus and his wife and second cousin, Agrippina the Elder.Germanicus was a grandson of Mark Antony, and Agrippina was the daughter of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa and Julia the Elder, making her the granddaughter of Augustus. [5]
Many English translations may not offer the full meaning of the profanity used in the context. [1] Hindustani profanities often contain references to incest and notions of honor. [2] Hindustani profanities may have origins in Persian, Arabic, Turkish or Sanskrit. [3] Hindustani profanity is used such as promoting racism, sexism or offending ...
Caligula is a play written by Albert Camus, begun in 1938 (the date of the first manuscript is 1939) and published for the first time in May 1944 by Éditions Gallimard. [1] It premiered on 26 September 1945 at the Théâtre Hébertot in Paris, starring Gérard Philipe ( Caligula ), Michel Bouquet and Georges Vitaly and was directed by Paul Œttly.
Caligula was the great-nephew and adoptive grandson (via the adoption of his father Germanicus) of Tiberius; his father was the son of Tiberius' brother Drusus. Claudius was the great-nephew of Augustus, as well as the nephew of Tiberius (and the only Julio-Claudian who was not adopted); his mother Antonia was the daughter of Augustus' sister ...
— Caligula, Roman emperor (24 January 41 CE), after being fatally stabbed "It is not painful, Pætus." [11]: 6 ("Non dolet, Paete!") — Arria, Roman woman (42 CE), to her husband, Aulus Caecina Paetus. He had been condemned to death but given permission to kill himself; when he hesitated to do so, his wife stabbed herself first and handed ...
Caligula and Incitatus, drawing by Jean Victor Adam. Incitatus (Latin pronunciation: [ɪŋkɪˈtaːtʊs]; meaning "swift" or "at full gallop") was the favourite horse of Roman Emperor Caligula (r. 37–41 AD). According to legend, Caligula planned to make the horse a consul, although ancient sources are clear that this did not occur. Supposedly ...
Also included is a game of throwing dice with the Adhvaryu priest in which the king wins a cow, by which the king is enthroned and the cosmos is regenerated. [1] There is a revealing of the tale of Shunahshepa , a boy who was nearly sacrificed to Varuna on behalf of the sonless king Harishchandra , which hints at a rejected archaic practice of ...
According to Dio, the temple's doors opened spontaneously before the assassination of Caligula's successor, Claudius, in 54 CE, which was retrospectively taken as an omen of his death. [ 5 ] A passage of the late antique Notitia Dignitatum has been interpreted as giving tentative evidence for the temple's survival into the third century CE. [ 6 ]