Claudius has been portrayed in film on several other occasions, including in the 1979 motion picture Caligula, the role being performed by Giancarlo Badessi in which the character was depicted as an idiot, in contrast to Robert Graves ' portrait of Claudius as a cunning and deeply intelligent man who is perceived by others to be an idiot.

While the reliability of these sources has increasingly been called into question, it is known that during his brief reign, Caligula worked to increase the unconstrained personal power of the emperor ( as opposed to countervailing powers within the principate ).

Pliny the Elder's Natural History has a few brief references to Caligula.

The paucity of sources has resulted in significant gaps in the reign of Caligula.

In episode 73, season 4, entitled Working for Caligula of Two and a Half Men, the character of Berta said " I'm working for Caligula ," while picking up after Charlie who has resumed his hedonistic lifestyle after his brother Alan moved out.

Caligula ( Malcolm McDowell ), the young heir to the throne of the syphilis-ridden, half-mad Emperor Tiberius ( Peter O ' Toole ), thinks he has received a bad omen after a blackbird flies into his room early one morning.

At Capri, Caligula finds his uncle has become depraved, showing signs of advanced venereal diseases, and embittered with Rome and politics.

Caligula triumphantly removes the imperial signet from Tiberius's finger and suddenly realizes that Gemellus has witnessed the murder.

Caligula has a nervous breakdown ; he smashes a statue of Isis and drags Drusilla's body around the palace while screaming hysterically.

After a brief stay in a city jail, Caligula proclaims himself a god and becomes determined to destroy the senatorial class, which he has come to loathe.

" Filmed while he was playing Caligula nightly on stage, Sheen has remarked, " It ’ s interesting that in searching for monsters to play, you often end up playing leaders.

Ben-Sasson has proposed that the " Crisis under Caligula " ( 37 – 41 ) was the " first open break between Rome and the Jews ".

Most of the information we know about him has been connected to material about Caligula.

Having withdrawn from the world of pornography out of disappointment with the purely commercial approach of American distributors and the resulting inferiority of video productions, Braun has dedicated himself to writing scientific works on sexology ( L ' impeto di Venere, dealing with the G-spot ) and on anthropology, erotic historical novels such as Lady Caligula ( both in English and his native tongue, Italian ), erotic thrillers, a study of prostitution, and his autobiography.

The Crisis under Caligula ( 37-41 ) has been proposed as the " first open break between Rome and the Jews ", even though problems were already evident during the Census of Quirinius in 6 and under Sejanus ( before 31 ).

He has also been called the " King of the Keys " by Guitar World magazine and the " Caligula of Keyboards " by Alice Cooper.

One theory, advanced by Ewald and Willrich, holds that the relation is a polemic against Caligula, thus dating from around AD 40, but this theory has been rejected by more recent authors, because Ptolemy in the book does not claim divine honors as Caligula did.

It has been suggested that it was written before the persecution of the Jews under Caligula, and before the fall of Jerusalem in 70 CE.

On stylistic evidence, there has always been some question whether these two flanking poems in Cotton Caligula A. ii might be attributed to Thomas Chester as well, with arguments on both sides.

An archetypically strict nun with no sense of humour and often nicknamed as " Sister Caligula " by her students, she does on the occasion has a human side to her nature and was once called Florence Anne.

The ' Crisis under Caligula ' ( 37 – 41 ) has been proposed as the first open break between Rome and the Jews.

According to Suetonius, Caligula nursed a rumor that Augustus and Julia the Elder had an incestuous union from which Agrippina the Elder had been born.

Like his uncle Caligula before him, Nero was also a direct descendant of Augustus Caesar, a fact which made his ascension to the throne much easier and smoother than it had been for Tiberius or Claudius.

Under Augustus, however, this custom had been revived and applied to cover slander or libellous writings as well, eventually leading to a long cycle of trials and executions under such emperors as Tiberius, Caligula and Nero, spawning entire networks of informers that terrorized Rome's political system for decades.

They have been rejected or strongly criticised by many prominent black metal musicians – including Jon Nödtveidt, Tormentor, King ov Hell, Infernus, Lord Ahriman, Emperor Magus Caligula, Protector, and the members of Arkhon Infaustus and Watain.

Caligula also gave him the whole amount of the revenues of Commagene during the twenty years that it had been a Roman province.

Caligula also gave them one million gold pieces the whole amount of the revenues of Commagene during the twenty years that it had been under a Roman province.

Philo himself claims in his Embassy to Gaius to have been part of an embassy sent by the Alexandrian Jews to the Roman Emperor Caligula.

" Other sources tell us that Caligula had been asking to receive the honors due to a god.

According to Tacitus, Macro even played an active role in bringing about Caligula's rise to power by ordering Tiberius to be killed after it was revealed that reports of his death had been premature: Caligula had begun to take power immediately upon hearing that Tiberius had died of natural causes but without confirming that Tiberius had indeed died.

Caligula production was housed in Dear Studios, Rome, where the infamous Cleopatra had been filmed thirteen years earlier.

Vidal, who was paid $ 200, 000 for his script, agreed to drop his contractual claim for 10 % of the film profits in exchange for having his name removed from the title of the film ( original billing was to have been Gore Vidal's Caligula ).

Domitia's father Corbulo had been one of Rome's most respected Senators and generals, serving as consul under Caligula, and conducting military campaigns in Germania and Parthia under Claudius and Nero.

The fourth Emperor, Claudius, was the first to assume the name " Caesar " upon accession, without having been adopted by the previous emperor ; however, he was at least a member by blood of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, being the nephew of Tiberius and the uncle of Caligula.

Adminius, whose power-base appears from his coins to have been in Kent, was exiled by his father shortly before AD 40 according to Suetonius, prompting the emperor Caligula to mount his abortive invasion of Britain.

Stabbings have been common throughout human history and were the means used to assassinate a number of distinguished historical figures, such as Julius Caesar and the Roman Emperor Caligula.

A conspiracy to assassinate Caligula and replace him with his uncle, Claudius, had been in discussion for some time and that day had been decided for the event.

After Emperor Magus Caligula joined the band their lyrics came to focus more on blasphemy and anti-Christian rhetoric, although there have been several exceptions to this.

It appears that “ the act of bridging the Bay of Naples was an excellent-and safe-means by which to lay the foundation for military glory .” Some scattered remains were still being shown foreign tourists as the " Bridge of Caligula " at the end of the 18th century: Elizabeth, Lady Holland, in passing by boat from Pozzuoli to Misenum in 1793 thought the remains more likely to have been the mole from which his pontoon bridge was extended.

Caligula 1979 Agrippina is played by Lori Wagner

A feature-length historical film Caligula was completed in 1979, in which Malcolm McDowell played the lead role.

He played the mad Roman emperor Caligula in an uncompleted 1937 film version of Robert Graves's novel I, Claudius ( with Charles Laughton ); a kindly veterinarian who accidentally causes the death of a murderess ( played by Bette Davis ) in the 1952 suspense drama Another Man's Poison ; and the fool Wamba in the 1952 Ivanhoe ( with Robert Taylor and Elizabeth Taylor ).

Macro was played by John Rhys-Davies in the 1976 BBC TV adaptation of Robert Graves's book I, Claudius and by Guido Mannari in Caligula.

In the trailer for the fictional remake of Caligula, he was played by Benicio del Toro.

In 1981, Anneka Di Lorenzo, who played Messalina, sued Guccione, claiming that he damaged her career by using hardcore sexual scenes in the final cut of Caligula without her knowledge, thereby associating her with a pornographic film.

* Teresa Ann Savoy played Drusilla in the 1979 motion picture Caligula, which showed the more plausible version of Drusilla dying from the fever, though it did follow up with a highly unlikely scene of Caligula licking her corpse in mourning and then having sex with it one last time ( although the latter half of the sequence got deleted from all the released versions of the film ).

In Caligula ( film ) she was played by Mirella D ' Angelo.