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	Survey of ancient sources on the Roman Emperor [[~~Tiberius~~]].		Survey of ancient sources on the Roman Emperor [[Caligula]].

	*This page is edited by [[Samuele Rocca]], Israel		*This page is edited by [[Samuele Rocca]], Israel

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			Survey of ancient sources on the Roman Emperor [[Tiberius]].

	*This page is edited by [[Samuele Rocca]], Israel		*This page is edited by [[Samuele Rocca]], Israel
	*DICTIONARY: see [[Gaius]]
	*ANCIENT SOURCES: see [[Gaius]] (sources)
	*SCHOLARLY AND FICTIONAL WORKS: see :Category:[[Tiberius]] (subject)

	~~This page includes ancient sources dealing with the character of the Roman Emperor [[Tiberius]].~~

	===Overview===		===Overview===

	The Latin writer [[Suetonius]] wrote a biography of [[Gaius Caligula]], the fourth book of the Lives of the Twelve Caesars. [[Tacitus]] in his annals dedicated books VII-XII to the reigns of [[Gaius Caligula]] and [[Claudius]]. However books VII – X are missing. The Greek Historian [[Dio Cassius]] dedicated book 59 of his [[Roman History]] to the reign of [[Gaius Caligula]].		The Latin writer [[Suetonius]] wrote a biography of [[Gaius Caligula]], the fourth book of the Lives of the Twelve Caesars. [[Tacitus]] in his annals dedicated books VII-XII to the reigns of [[Gaius Caligula]] and [[Claudius]]. However books VII – X are missing. The Greek Historian [[Dio Cassius]] dedicated book 59 of his [[Roman History]] to the reign of [[Gaius Caligula]].


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	4 - - 59. He lived twenty-nine years, and reigned three years, ten months, and eight days. His body was carried privately into the Lamian Gardens, where it was half burnt upon a pile hastily raised, and then had some earth carelessly thrown over it. It was afterwards disinterred by his sisters, on their return from banishment, burnt to ashes, and buried. Before this was done, it is well known that the keepers of the gardens were greatly disturbed by apparitions; and that not a night passed without some terrible alarm or other in the house where he was slain, until it was destroyed by fire. His wife [[Caesonia]] was killed with him, being stabbed by a centurion; and his daughter had her brains knocked out against a wall.		4 - - 59. He lived twenty-nine years, and reigned three years, ten months, and eight days. His body was carried privately into the Lamian Gardens, where it was half burnt upon a pile hastily raised, and then had some earth carelessly thrown over it. It was afterwards disinterred by his sisters, on their return from banishment, burnt to ashes, and buried. Before this was done, it is well known that the keepers of the gardens were greatly disturbed by apparitions; and that not a night passed without some terrible alarm or other in the house where he was slain, until it was destroyed by fire. His wife [[Caesonia]] was killed with him, being stabbed by a centurion; and his daughter had her brains knocked out against a wall.
	4 - - 60. Of the miserable condition of those times, any person may easily form an estimate from the following circumstances. When his death was made public, it was not immediately credited. People entertained a suspicion that a report of his being killed had been contrived and spread by himself, with the view of discovering how they stood affected towards him. Nor had the conspirators fixed upon any one to succeed him. The senators were so unanimous in their resolution to assert the liberty of their country, that the consuls assembled them at first not in the usual place of meeting, because it was named after [[Julius Caesar]], but in the [[Capitol]]. Some proposed to abolish the memory of the Caesars, and level their temples with the ground. It was particularly remarked on this occasion, that all the Caesars, who had the praenomen of Caius, died by the sword, from the [[Caius Caesar]] who was slain in the times of Cinna.		4 - - 60. Of the miserable condition of those times, any person may easily form an estimate from the following circumstances. When his death was made public, it was not immediately credited. People entertained a suspicion that a report of his being killed had been contrived and spread by himself, with the view of discovering how they stood affected towards him. Nor had the conspirators fixed upon any one to succeed him. The senators were so unanimous in their resolution to assert the liberty of their country, that the consuls assembled them at first not in the usual place of meeting, because it was named after [[Julius Caesar]], but in the [[Capitol]]. Some proposed to abolish the memory of the Caesars, and level their temples with the ground. It was particularly remarked on this occasion, that all the Caesars, who had the praenomen of Caius, died by the sword, from the [[Caius Caesar]] who was slain in the times of Cinna.



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	*DICTIONARY: see [[Gaius]]		*DICTIONARY: see [[Gaius]]
	*ANCIENT SOURCES: see [[Gaius]] (sources)		*ANCIENT SOURCES: see [[Gaius]] (sources)
	*SCHOLARLY AND FICTIONAL WORKS: see :Category:[[[[Tiberius]]]] (subject)		*SCHOLARLY AND FICTIONAL WORKS: see :Category:[[Tiberius]] (subject)

	This page includes ancient sources dealing with the character of the Roman Emperor [[[[Tiberius]]]].		This page includes ancient sources dealing with the character of the Roman Emperor [[Tiberius]].

	===Overview===		===Overview===

	The Latin writer [[Suetonius]] wrote a biography of [[Gaius Caligula]], the fourth book of the Lives of the Twelve Caesars. [[Tacitus]] in his annals dedicated books VII-XII to the reigns of [[Gaius Caligula]] and [[[[Claudius]]]]. However books VII – X are missing. The Greek Historian [[Dio Cassius]] dedicated book 59 of his [[Roman History]] to the reign of [[Gaius Caligula]].		The Latin writer [[Suetonius]] wrote a biography of [[Gaius Caligula]], the fourth book of the Lives of the Twelve Caesars. [[Tacitus]] in his annals dedicated books VII-XII to the reigns of [[Gaius Caligula]] and [[Claudius]]. However books VII – X are missing. The Greek Historian [[Dio Cassius]] dedicated book 59 of his [[Roman History]] to the reign of [[Gaius Caligula]].

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