Heywood Broun wrote: `` Belle Poitrine is the most original thinker since Caligula '', and even F.D.R. had to concede that `` if the rest of this nation showed the foresight and patriotism of Miss Poitrine, America would rapidly resemble ancient Babylon and Nineveh ''.

Caligula 1979 Agrippina is played by Lori Wagner

This early dating is centered on the preterist interpretation of chapter 17, where the seven heads of the " beast " are regarded as the succession of Roman emperors up to the time of the fall of Jerusalem in 70 AD, Caligula through Vespasian.

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 ).

Tacitus writes that the Praetorian Prefect, Macro, smothered Tiberius with a pillow to hasten Caligula's accession, much to the joy of the Roman people, while Suetonius writes that Caligula may have carried out the killing, though this is not recorded by any other ancient historian.

She is said to have committed suicide, although Suetonius hints that Caligula actually poisoned her.

Cassius Dio had written an entire chapter on the annexation of Mauretania by Caligula, but it is now lost.

The history of Caligula's reign is extremely problematic as only two sources contemporary with Caligula have survived — the works of Philo and Seneca.

The bulk of what is known of Caligula comes from Suetonius and Cassius Dio.

Caligula, by French author Albert Camus, is a play in which Caligula returns after deserting the palace for three days and three nights following the death of his beloved sister, Drusilla.

In the novel I, Claudius by English writer Robert Graves, Caligula is presented as being a murderous sociopath from his childhood, who became clinically insane early in his reign.

Graves's Caligula commits incest with all three of his sisters and is implied to have murdered Drusilla.

You control Caligula and your mission is to destroy anything in sight.

The infant Caligula is also implicated.

Caligula, who is only 5 years old at the time, completes the curse and kills his father, because his father had tried to discipline him.

However, Caligula is shown in a later episode to confess to his uncle Claudius that he killed his father in revenge for trying to discipline him, by working on his father's superstitions ( planting various ' curses ' around his father's residence ) and eventually frightening him to death-therefore, Piso and Plancina were technically innocent ( Zeus, by Jove!

Despite the act of incest being unacceptable within the Roman Empire, Roman Emperor Caligula is rumored to have had sexual relationships with all three of his sisters ( Julia Livilla, Drusilla, and Agrippina the Younger ).

* 41 – Roman Emperor Caligula, known for his eccentricity and cruel despotism, is assassinated by his disgruntled Praetorian Guards.

These scholars emphasize the appearance of " man of sin " in the second chapter of this letter, whether this personage is identified with the Antichrist of 1 John and Revelation, or with a historical person like Caligula.

** Caligula, known for his eccentricity and cruel despotism, is assassinated by his disgruntled Praetorian Guards.

* Agrippina the Elder is exiled to the island of Pandataria, and her sons ( except Caligula ) are imprisoned by Lucius Aelius Sejanus.

* Naevius Sutorius Macro is said to gain favour in the empire by prostituting his wife Eunius to Caligula.

A number of other desperate measures by Caligula are described by historians.

Additionally, the historians who wrote them are described as biased, either overly critical or praising of Caligula.

Eventually the Roman emperor Caligula abandoned the Augustan wariness toward what was described as oriental cults, and it was in his reign that the Isiac festival of the Navigium Isidis was established in Rome.

In his 740-page novel Lady Caligula, Braun goes against the grain by portraying Caligula as a brilliant character, instead of the deranged emperor described in Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire and in I, Claudius.

According to Josephus the emperor Claudius in AD 42 confirmed Agrippa I in the possession of Abila of Lysanias already bestowed upon him by Caligula, elsewhere described as Abila, which had formed the tetrarchy of Lysanias.

After the Circus Games, Caligula ordered written evidence of the court cases from Tiberius ’ treason trials to be brought to the Forum to be burnt, first being the cases of Agrippina and her two sons.

Through his mother Antonia Major, Domitius was a great nephew of Augustus, first cousin to Claudius, and second cousin to Agrippina and Caligula.

He was the only child of Agrippina the Younger through her first marriage to Domitius, and through her, he was great-great grandson of the Emperor Augustus, great-grandnephew and adoptive great-grandson of the Emperor Tiberius, nephew of the Emperor Caligula, as well as great-nephew and stepson of the Emperor Claudius.

In early 41 AD, Caligula became the first Roman emperor to be assassinated, the result of a conspiracy involving officers of the Praetorian Guard, as well as members of the Roman Senate and of the imperial court.

The adolescent Caligula was then sent to live first with his great-grandmother ( and Tiberius's mother ) Livia.

The Vatican Obelisk was first brought from Egypt to Rome by Caligula.

Details on the events vary somewhat from source to source, but they agree that Chaerea was first to stab Caligula, followed by a number of conspirators.

The Julio-Claudian dynasty normally refers to the first five Roman Emperors: Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula ( also known as Gaius ), Claudius, and Nero, or the family to which they belonged ; they ruled the Roman Empire from its formation, in the second half of the 1st century ( 44 / 31 / 27 ) BC, until AD 68, when the last of the line, Nero, committed suicide.

Caligula had both Julian and Claudian ancestry, making him the first actual " Julio-Claudian " emperor.

Caligula ordered Gemellus killed within his first year.

He rose through the ranks of Roman public office, being elected aedile on his second attempt in 39 and praetor on his first attempt in 40, taking the opportunity to ingratiate himself with the Emperor Caligula.

Following Tiberius ' death and the ascension of Agrippa's friend Caligula, Agrippa was set free and made governor first of the territories of Batanaea and Trachonitis that his cousin Herod II had held, then of the tetrarchy of Lysanias, with the title of " king ".

Drusilla was a first cousin of Roman General Germanicus and his brother the Roman Emperor Claudius and a second cousin of Roman Emperor Caligula, Roman Empress Agrippina the Younger, Roman Empress Valeria Messalina and Roman Emperor Nero.

Caligula began his first year as emperor in 38, and there was a severe conflict between him and Seneca ; the emperor is said to have spared his life only because he expected Seneca's natural life to be near its end.

He was therefore deprived of his kingdom, after a reign of thirty-four years from his first appointment by Caligula.

It is contained in the MS. Cotton Caligula A ix, written in the first quarter of the 13th century, and in the Cotton Otho C xiii, about fifty years later ( though in this edition it is shorter ).

The life of Claudius provided Graves with a way to write about the first four Emperors of Rome ( Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, and Claudius ) from an intimate point of view.

* 37 – 40 " Crisis under Caligula " – a financial crisis throughout the empire results in the " first open break " between Jews and Romans even though problems were already evident during the Census of Quirinius in 6 and under Sejanus before 31.

She was the first younger sister to Agrippina the Younger and beloved sister to Caligula.

During the Roman Empire's first 200 years, this tradition was common with Tiberius, Caligula, Nero, Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius and Lucius Verus all becoming Emperor through adoption.

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.

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

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 ).

* 37-41 Crisis under Caligula, proposed as the first open break between Rome and the Jews