Caligula: Rome's Mad King

Rome… the beating heart of an empire that ruled the known world. Rome—mighty,

disciplined, proud. A civilization forged by order… A civilization built by discipline,

strategy, and steel. Rome had seen tyrants before… but nothing—nothing—prepared the Empire for the

storm. His real name was Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, but Rome knew him

as Caligula—“Little Boots,” a nickname carried from childhood, when he marched with his father

Germanicus’s legions wearing miniature soldier gear. The soldiers adored him.

The people loved him. Senators praised him as the heir of a noble lineage.

He was charming, generous, almost angelic in public life. For a brief moment,