And if Trump wanted to be Emperor of America, there is no better Roman emperor for Trump to emulate than Emperor Caligula. Trump has mused that according to Article II of the Constitution ...

Peter Edwell receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Something tells me US president Donald Trump would love to be a Roman emperor. The mythology of unrestrained power with ...

Enough of the Princeps, what remains to be described, is the monster…. The Roman emperor Caligula endures as one of the most notorious figures in not only Roman history, but the history of the ...

they were not remnants from the debauched revelries that the murderous and sex-crazed Roman Emperor Caligula used to hold on ...

Born Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus in A.D. 12, Caligula rose to power in A.D. 37 as the third Roman emperor. Nicknamed “Caligula,” meaning “little boots,” after the miniature soldier ...

There were over 80 emperors of the Roman ... of both the Western and Eastern Roman emperors are included. Some emperors were famously bad — such as Caligula (ruled from A.D. 37 to 41) and ...

Statue of Roman emperor Hadrian. This intrepid Redditor sorted the emperors into several tiers: Stay Far Away From Me, Ugly, Mediocre, Cute, Hot, Apollo Himself, and Caligula Tier. Subscribe to ...

In the film, he appoints a miniature pet monkey “first counsel,” and while there’s no evidence that happened, it seems to be a nod to a different Roman emperor Caligula, who, according to ...

Long story short: After production on “Caligula” ended, the producer (and Penthouse publisher) Bob Guccione decided to enliven the rise and fall of the infamous Roman emperor (an impressively ...

Despite reigning for just four years, Caligula is remembered as perhaps the cruellest, maddest, most perverted, extravagant, and murderous of Roman emperors. His reign was also marked by a testy ...