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Back to SearchCaligula #10 – “Anal Maintenance”
Caligula's absolute favourite thing in the world, apart from spending money, is screwing. And seriously, who can blame him. It's good to be the king.…
6 years, 2 months ago
Caligula #9 – The Ships of Nemi
Season 1
The Nemi ships were two pleasure barges, one larger than the other, built under Caligula at Lake Nemi. Although there were several attempts to recove…
6 years, 2 months ago
Caligula #8 – Shamelessness
Season 1
According to Suetonius, Caligula was quite proud of his "adiatrepsia" - shamelessness. He lived in habitual incest with all his sisters and was espec…
6 years, 3 months ago
Caligula #6 – The Maccabees
Season 1
One of the other first things Caligula did when he took power was to release Herod Agrippa from jail - King Herod from the New Testament. The grandso…
6 years, 3 months ago
Caligula #5 – Caligula’s Popularity
Season 1
By all accounts, Caligula was extremely popular with the people, as his father, Germanicus, had been. Suetonius reports that Caligula was “the empero…
6 years, 4 months ago
Caligula #4 – Monster or Misunderstood?
Season 1
We all think we know something of the story of Caligula. We have a picture of him as a destructive monster, an insane sadist. But truth is rarely tha…
6 years, 4 months ago
Caligula #3 – The Movie (Part 3)
Season 1
We continue and finish our live commentary on the 1979 epic film, CALIGULA. Picking up where we left off last week, Caligula is fisting the married c…
6 years, 4 months ago
Caligula Caesar #2 – The Movie (Part 2)
We continue our live commentary on the 1979 epic film, CALIGULA. Picking up where we left off last week, still in Tiberius’ sex palace on Capri, with…
6 years, 4 months ago
Caligula Caesar #1 – The Movie (Part 1)
To kick off our Caligula series, we are doing a commentary on the 1979 epic film, CALIGULA. Written by Gore Vidal, directed by Tinto Brass, produced …
6 years, 5 months ago
Tiberius Caesar #40 – I’M NOT DEAD YET
In March 37 CE, aged seventy-seven years, four months, and nine days, of which time he had been emperor twenty-two years, seven months, and seven day…
6 years, 5 months ago