536. Emperors of Rome: Caligula, Incest and Insanity (Part 3)

466.283 - 488.741 Dominic Sandbrook

I mean, it is actually in many ways one of the great biographies in all literature. I think it really is, yes. It is from Suetonius' biography of Caligula, really, arguably even more so than his biography of Nero, that we get the sort of stereotypical image of the demented Roman emperor who has been driven into total depravity by absolute power. I mean, that's what this is, isn't it?