Caligula: The Mad Emperor
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MYS081: In AD 41, the Roman emperor Caligula was killed by his own guards, ending the rule of an uncontrollable mad tyrant. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli explore the mystery of whether the stories of Caligula were true, what led to his death, and what mysterious connection he might have to the Bible and prophecy.
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Links for this episode:
- Suetonius’s Lives of the Twelve Caesars
- Philo’s Embassy to Gaius
- Robert Graves’s book I, Claudius
- Robert Graves’s book Claudius the God and His Wife Messalina
- I, Claudius (TV series)
- Wikipedia on Caligula
- Germanicus
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