Calígula

In this book on Caligula, Rome's most infamous emperor, Stephen Dando-Collins recounts all the palace intrigues, murders that led to his proclamation, and details the horrors of his maddening reign and its murderous consequences that came from his sister. Agrippina the Younger, her uncle Claudius and her nephew Nero. The author skillfully assembles the pieces of the puzzle that make up Caligula's life and influences and puts his paranoid reign in perspective while examining the betrayals and deaths he witnessed, as well as the emergence of a near-fatal disease. which is believed to have affected his mental health.