GAIUS JULIUS CAESAR

Roman emperor (37) of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, the youngest son of Germanicus and Agrippina. Notable extravagance (in the first year of his reign, spent the entire treasury). The desire for unlimited power and demand honors himself as a god caused dissatisfaction of the Senate and Praetorians. Praetorians assassinated.

Gaius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, was the son of the popular Germanicus Consul of people who died in the thirty-four years, is believed to be poison. In Germanicus with his wife Agrippina had nine children, and thanks to his popularity among the people he was adopted Tiberius, paternal uncle, and made his heir. When Tiberius died, the people demanded that Germanicus was elected head of Rome, but that he relinquish power.

Tiberius descended from the ancient and noble family of Claudius and inherited characteristic of the family stern disposition, and gentility. It is not surprising that his death was greeted with jubilation, and the Senate gave authority princeps grandson Tiberius and popularly beloved son of Germanicus Gaius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, nicknamed Caligula (Sapozhok).

Nickname Caligula, he obliged the soldiers, because they grew up among the soldiers, dressed in an ordinary soldier. After his father died, and then, after the reference mother Caligula lived with great-grandmother Libya Augusta, and after her death - his grandmother Antonia. When he was nineteen, Tiberius summoned him to Capri, where Caligula patiently endured the taunts and bullying and did not express dissatisfaction without succumbing to the provocations. However, the shrewd old man, understood the essence of Caligula's very early, and said that he feeds the viper for the Roman people. Tiberius was not wrong, because it really Gaius Caesar Germanicus - Caligula - was by nature cruel and wicked, so wicked that we should accept that he had been ill since birth. At Capri Caligula gladly attended the torture and executions, and the night wandering from tavern to tavern and a brothel, indulging in all sorts of debauchery.

He married Yunii Klavdille, the daughter of noble Roman. But he was already married once deprived of her virginity his sister Drusilla, how to know hundreds of women of easy virtue, as indulged in debauchery with Enniey Neviey. Therefore, the marriage was necessary to him only for a certain respect for decorum, and even more in order to get closer to power. Innocent and inexperienced Junius did not make any impression on him. With difficulty Caligula suffered this stupid as he thought, wedding ceremony, but stayed with the bride alone, he felt nothing except irritation.

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His wife died in childbirth and he was not sorry about it and very quickly forgotten, though she was not. Now a widower could easily enjoy the subtle caresses Ennii Nevii, who was the wife of Macron, who headed the praetorian cohorts. Yes, they both cost each other, because Neviya guessed before handing him a receipt request that he take her as his wife when it reaches the highest authorities in Rome. Caligula gave her the oath and a written receipt, but she managed to make friends and to her husband. They indulged in love under the noses of Macron and sick of the emperor. With the help of her husband Ennii Caligula poisoned Tiberius, who was seriously ill, but did not die and was in no hurry to release her grandson place of the head of the empire. Poison for this long has not acted, then head of Tiberius Caligula covered pillow, and his whole body fell on him. One young man saw it and cried out in terror, and Caligula immediately sent him to the cross.

However, people could not know about the depravity of the heir, and enthusiastically greeted the new ruler of Rome, recalling his love for his father. When Caligula came to Rome, he was immediately handed to the Senate and the highest total power. He was doing everything possible to bring in people self-love. In Rome, resumed on an unprecedented scale people loved circuses, gladiatorial fights, harassment of animals. He pardoned the convicted and deported. He honored their dead and the death toll from the wiles of Tiberius' relatives, but to forgive those who have written denunciations of his brothers. He arranged nationwide distribution of money and gave sumptuous feasts for the senators and their wives. People loved him and honored forever, but because the Roman nobility was forced to endure all the wild antics of the emperor Caligula.

At feasts, this tyrant, who imagines himself a deity, selected each time one of the wives and takes her to his room. After enjoying a guest, he returned to her husband, right there in detail told him how he dealt with her love than she liked him, and what not. No one eminent woman he did not leave alone, not to mention the wanton Pirallide. Respectable citizens all have suffered, or face death by wild beasts, dungeons and torture. All suffered and Macron, close to the emperor as anyone else.

What Enniya Neviya, which he promised to marry when it comes to power? She did not want to let him go and was still his mistress, and her husband often Macron waiting when they graduate, at the door of his house.

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But when the palace again appeared Drusilla, Caligula Ennii lost interest, and the recollection that she helped bring to power, it was unpleasant to the Emperor. Now Caligula always keep with you the best in Rome, the executioner, who beheaded anyone in any moment - the first sign of the emperor. One day he came into the bedroom Ennii together with her husband and forced them to make love. At this moment the executioner came, and struck with a sword, but he failed to kill the two - killed only Macron. Enniyu Caligula strangled, and the executioner killed the soldiers burst into the bedroom, thinking that he attacked the emperor.

The historian Gaius Suetonius Tranquille in the book "Life of Twelve Caesars" (approx. 120 years Mr. Oe. ) Wrote: "On the marriage it is hard to say that they were indecent: the conclusion, termination or stay married. Orestillu Libya to marry Guy Piso, he was congratulated, immediately ordered to take away her husband and several days later released, and two years later sent into exile on suspicion that it was during this time once again took up with her husband. Others say that at the wedding feast he was lying opposite Piso, sent him a note: "Do not poke your nose to my wife!", and immediately after the feast took her to him and the next day announced edict that he found a wife by the example of Romulus and Augustus. Lolli Peacock, the wife of Guy Memmi, and konsulyara commander, he was summoned from the province, having heard that her grandmother was once beautiful, once divorced and married, and after a bit of time released by forbidding her to continue to associate with anyone whatsoever. Tsezoniyu, is neither beauty or youth and have given birth to another man's three daughters, he loved all hotter and longer just for her sensuality and extravagance: sometimes it withdrew its troops to close with him, on horseback, with a light shield, a cape and helmet, and friends even showed her naked. It is wife, he honored her not before she gave birth to him, and at one and the same day, declared himself her husband and the father of her child. A child of this, Julia Drusilla, he carried to the temples of goddesses, and finally laid to the bosom of Minerva, instructing the deity to raise her and suckle. The best proof that it is the daughter of his flesh, he thought her fierce temper: even if it reaches a rage to the point that nails scratching play with her children face and eyes. "

As already mentioned, one of his favorite women had a sister Drusilla.

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It is considered that Guy seduced her as a teenager. Then he married her, and when he became emperor, took away her husband and placed in his palace, where Drusilla lived as his wife. And the other sisters, he seduced, but the passion for it was not as rampant as to Drusilla, and he often just gave them to their pets for fun, but ultimately condemned them for their corruption and banished. Drusilla took over his body, enormous power.

His grandmother, Antonia, terribly worrying because of the abominations committed by his grandson, and not once tried to get him to talk. But he did not take the old woman, not wanting to listen to her morals. He has long disparaged it and accepted it finally, when was still alive, Macron, in his presence. Elderly relative, who became famous a virtuous life, said nothing to the emperor, knowing that a witness need Caligula to condemn her for contempt of authority. According to some accounts, Caligula humiliated Antony as it is impossible even to imagine - he ordered Macron rape her in his eyes, which were carried out loyal and dedicated warrior. Then Anthony had been poisoned on the orders of his grandson. The body of his grandmother burned, and he watched the funeral pyre of the palace windows.

Sure, all - or nearly all - wild antics of Caligula led the patient brain, bent on sexual perversion and violence. Permissiveness of a tyrannical government promotes and reinforces the disease. Endless spectacle of torture and executions exacerbated an already stretched to the limit sensitivity.

After declaring himself a god, and yes even the only, Caligula lived by the principle of permissiveness, but because he really nobody could object or interfere. So on his orders quickly cut off the heads of the statues of Jupiter and replaced them with his head, Caligula. Sometimes he would get up in the temple in the pose of the statue of the god, and took honors the people God intended. He has not behaved like an emperor, but as a jester, speaking publicly in a circus, singing and dancing that befit only a servant. Slave and . . . God, of course. But his sophisticated entertainment did not save him from the terrible boredom.

Its annoying, and dependence on Drusilla. He was attached to her, he missed her. Obviously, she was his sister, was just as vicious and depraved as he is, why it was so good. She was shameless, she tried to be the world's best lover for him, because his cool to it - certain death for her. Finally, after learning that someone from the Chiefs cohorts devised a plot against the emperor, Caligula came up with the most refined plan, which he conceived, could prevent the implementation of the planned coup by his enemies.

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He announced Tully Sabon, praetorian tribune that he wants to intermarry with them and the chiefs of cohorts through his sister. And he gave a martinet beloved Drusilla, and she certainly did not survive violence and horrible humiliation and extinguished in a few months. Caligula declared national mourning and grieving for beloved sister so much that he went into the desert. However, it soon returned, but all oaths now fixed the name of Drusilla.

Marking the beginning of his rise to power of giving away money, Caligula in a year spent the whole treasury, and began to rob the people and the provinces, introducing a new unprecedented taxes, and just robbing everyone.

Several plots against the mad ruler failed. But everyone knew that sooner or later it will happen. Having lived twenty-nine years, having been in power for three years, ten months and eight days, Gaius Julius Caesar Germanicus, or simply Caligula was murdered by conspirators in the underpass on Jan. 24, 1941 Mr. Oe.

Major role in this conspiracy played Cassius dick, Tribune Praetorian cohorts, over which, in spite of his advanced age, Guy made fun of in every way. It was decided to attack the Caligula on the Palatine games. Suetonius has described an attack: ". . . Some say that when he talked with the boys, dick, coming up behind him, with his sword deep ripped his head, shouting:" Do your thing "- and then stands Cornelius Sabinus, second conspirator in the front pierced his chest. Others report that when the centurion, devoted to conspiracy, drove the crowd of satellites, Sabine, as always, asked the emperor's password, he said: "Jupiter"; dick then shouted: "Get her!" - and when Guy turned around and laid his chin. He fell into convulsions shouting: "I'm alive!" - and then finished off the rest of his thirty blows - all had a cry: "Strike again!" Some even beat him with a blade in the groin. On the first noise ran to the aid of porters with six, then - the Germans bodyguards, some of the conspirators were killed, and with them some innocent senators. "

House, where he was killed Caligula soon burned during the fire. Died and his wife Tsezoniya, zarublennaya centurion, and a daughter who broke the wall . . .