Let's talk about Caligula. You know... the guy that is kind of the personification of evil. I'm not gonna sit here and write that his guy wasn't absolutely and horrifically evil, I'm just going to argue that... there are circumstances that turned Caligula into what he eventually became.
Have many people all over the world suffered through worse and not turned into evil monsters? Yes, of course.
There is no real justification to Caligula's actions, yet, it is still worth to look at him in a more humane way - to look at the boy that was before the emperor. I guess... in order to avoid a repeat of evil, we need to understand its origins, so let's try that in this episode.
Episode 3 of Rome's Greatest Emperors: Caligula
Notes:
This is becoming a theme with all my Roman emperor videos, but it is especially true for Caligula (and Tiberius): Most of the existing writing we have - by Suetonius and his peers - is very, very biased and anti-emperor. It's very gossipy and unreliable, and other sources are outdated in the sense that they are 100 years late to the party, which is like me giving you an account of the First World War, without access to all the documentation we have on the war. You get me?
I could have gone more in detail on some of atrocities Caligula committed, but I think the small selection I went with already highlights his ability for cruelty well enough, and it gave me more time to focus on other parts of Caligula's life.
To everyone that already watched my Tiberius video: Sorry for the repetition on Tiberius in this one, but for first time viewers, it was necessary to paint a picture of Tiberius before I can start with Caligula.
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Footage:
As always, some Game of Thrones clips in there, a little bit of Nolan's third Batman (Dark Night Rises), and clips from Netflix' Roman Empire series - the season with Commodus, who was my Caligula stand in for the sake of this video. Oh, and the blonde guy in the beginning, that's Octavian from HBO's Rome.
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