Ax Crazy: Regardless of how exaggerated this is, there's a reason why he's the trope name of The Caligula.Most emperors were deified after death, so this alone wasn't unusual, but he was the first to want this while he was still alive. Also promoted beloved sister Drusilla to godhood. A God Am I: Reportedly, he referred to himself as a god, and had the people worship him.His life was the source material for the infamously controversial film Caligula starring Malcolm McDowell in the title role. Is the Trope Namers for The Caligula and Caligula's Horse. There were several conspiracies against him, and he was eventually stabbed to death by his own bodyguards. It's certain that he wanted to increase his authority, which made him unpopular with the Senate. The outrageous tales about him committing incest with his sisters, sending his army against the sea and having them collect shells as booty, and wanting to make his favorite horse a consul come from Suetonius, who wrote a biography about him 80 years after his death (and was in the employ of an another dynasty of Emperors who had interest in demonizing their predecessors). It's hard to find out how much of this is true, since hardly any contemporary sources survived about him. The popular image about him is of an insane tyrant. His actual name was Gaius Julius Caesar Germanicus Caligula is a nickname, meaning "little boot", that he got in his childhood, because he liked to dress up as a soldier. The infamous Roman emperor, reigned between AD 37 and AD 41. PAGES WILL BE DELETED OTHERWISE IF THEY ARE MISSING BASIC MARKUP. DON'T MAKE PAGES MANUALLY UNLESS A TEMPLATE IS BROKEN, AND REPORT IT THAT IS THE CASE. THIS SHOULD BE WORKING NOW, REPORT ANY ISSUES TO Janna2000, SelfCloak or RRabbit42. The Trope workshop specific templates can then be removed and it will be regarded as a regular trope page after being moved to the Main namespace. All new trope pages will be made with the "Trope Workshop" found on the "Troper Tools" menu and worked on until they have at least three examples.Pages that don't do this will be subject to deletion, with or without explanation. All new pages should use the preloadable templates feature on the edit page to add the appropriate basic page markup. All images MUST now have proper attribution, those who neglect to assign at least the "fair use" licensing to an image may have it deleted.Failure to do so may result in deletion of contributions and blocks of users who refuse to learn to do so.
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