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The Assassination of the Emperor Caligula, by Lazzaro Baldi, between 1624 and 1703. On 24 January 41, [223] the day before his due departure for Alexandria, Caligula was assassinated by the Praetorian tribunes Cassius Chaerea and Cornelius Sabinus, and a number of centurions. Josephus names many of Caligula's inner circle as conspirators, and ...
In 38 CE, Caligula sent Herod Agrippa to Alexandria unannounced. [2] According to Philo, the visit was met with jeers from the Greek population who saw Agrippa as the king of the Jews. [3] Flaccus tried to placate both the Greek population and Caligula by having statues of the emperor placed in Jewish synagogues, an unprecedented provocation. [4]
Chaerea is foretold in the Sibyl's prophecy to be "the horse" that will kill Caligula, as Caligula rode on Chaerea's shoulders as a child. As he did in fact according to Suetonius, the new Emperor Claudius decides he must have Cassius Chaerea executed, not so much for the murder of the insane Caligula, but for ordering the murder of Caligula's ...
An order comes from Caligula that a statue of himself be placed in the Second Temple. The governor of Syria, Petronius, stalls, and Agrippa I intervenes; the plan is quashed. [158] [159] 41. Emperor Caligula is assassinated. Agrippa aids in Claudius's elevation to the throne; Claudius rewards him by expanding his kingdom to include Judea and ...
I, Claudius is a historical novel by English writer Robert Graves, published in 1934.Written in the form of an autobiography of the Roman Emperor Claudius, it tells the history of the Julio-Claudian dynasty and the early years of the Roman Empire, from Julius Caesar's assassination in 44 BC to Caligula's assassination in AD 41.
The narrator of the story in the Robert Graves novel I, Claudius states that Drusilla was killed by Caligula, though admitting he does not have firm evidence of this belief. This theme was embellished considerably in the 1976 BBC television adaptation of I, Claudius , where Drusilla was played by Beth Morris .
As such, “Caligula: The Ultimate Cut” is as a work of revisionism, a project to be admired, but in terms of truly breathing new life into a maligned production, the result is still a bit ...
A conspiracy to assassinate Caligula and replace him with his uncle Claudius had been in discussion for some time, and this day had been chosen for the assassination. While Caligula was watching an acting troupe of young men rehearsing in the cryptoporticus (underground corridor) for an upcoming performance, as part of a series of games and ...