Orange Ceasar Rises

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Caligula gets a lot of bad press he doesn’t deserve. Commodus was ‘said’ to be able to fight. I’m not sure that clubbing bound amputees so he could pretend to be Hercules counts as ‘fighting’.

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But Trump’s appointing Ivanka, Jarod, Carson, Devos and Pompeo to the administration is matched only by Caligula appointing his horse Incitatus to consulship of Rome.

It isn’t matched at all, because it’s almost a certainty that Caligula never did that. It’s important to remember that our two chief sources about Caligula’s reign are Suetonius and Dio who wrote long after the fact and were likely to have relied on material written by people who hated Caligula.

Read less Robert Graves and more Mary Beard.

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