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23 hours ago · Gaius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (31 August 12 – 24 January 41), better known by his nickname Caligula ( / kəˈlɪɡjʊlə / ), was Roman emperor from AD 37 until his assassination in AD 41. He was the son of the Roman general Germanicus and Augustus ' granddaughter Agrippina the Elder, members of the first ruling family of the Roman Empire.
5 days ago · Caligula’s most astute revision on the tyrant’s reign (not an original one, but still artfully articulated) is that Caligula’s most outlandish decisions were not symptoms of the corruptive nature of power but to provoke the stuffy senators and dusty institutions of Rome. Caligula isn’t driven mad by the power of the emperor, but by the ...
5 days ago · Think you've seen "Caligula?" Unless you were at Cannes last year to see this new "Ultimate Cut," don't be so sure. A from-the-ground-up reconstruction of the infamous 1979 Bob Guccione-financed film, assembled from more than 90 hours of film (much of it long thought to have been lost), the "Ultimate Cut" is three hours of eye-popping footage never seen until now thanks to the use of alternate ...
5 days ago · Gaius, i.e. Caligula as he became known, was born on August 31, 12 CE into a family of Julio-Claudian ancestry (the two families to which the first five Roman emperors belonged starting with Augustus). His birthplace is uncertain. Gaius' father, Germanicus ( Figure 4 ), was highly respected and well known. " In Germanicus all good parts and ...
5 days ago · When “Caligula" arrived in theaters in 1979, it came in on a tidal wave of hype, most of it on the negative side.The production of Penthouse Magazine publisher Bob Guccione’s grand experiment in creating an adult film that included the elements innate to a typical Hollywood spectacle was filled with such strife that both screenwriter Gore Vidal and director Tinto Brass attempted to remove ...
5 days ago · Caligula starred a number of iconic English actors, including Peter O’Toole and John Gielgud, all of whom did their best to distance themselves from the film after major film critics fired off scandalized and scathing reviews. The chorus of disapproval included Roger Ebert, who referred to the movie as “sickening, utterly worthless ...
23 hours ago · A. N. Sherwin-White records that serious discussion of the reasons for Roman persecution of Christians began in 1890 when it produced "20 years of controversy" and three main opinions: first, there was the theory held by most French and Belgian scholars that "there was a general enactment, precisely formulated and valid for the whole empire, which forbade the practice of the Christian religion.
