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Family tree by Anthony A. Barrett; Anthony A. (Emeritus Professor Barrett, Emeritus Professor University of British Columbia); John C. (Emeritus Professor Yardley, Emeritus Professor University of Ottowa) is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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There can be few historical figures who have made such a powerful impact on the popular imagination as the Roman emperor Caligula (died AD 41). Yet an accurate reconstruction of his life and reign largely eludes us. This is paradoxical. The source material is plentiful, even lavish, by the standards of antiquity. The problem lies not so much in the quantity of evidence available, but in its quality. For our information we are obliged to draw on ancient accounts that can be colourful and wonderfully entertaining but have a flexible notion of historical truth and often seem to border on fiction. The consequence is that there is hardly a detail that the modern historian can present without deep reservations about its reliability. A biography of Caligula, in the regular modern sense of the word, is an insurmountable task, and can be at best be a summary personal interpretation by an individual historian of a mass of incoherent and often inconsistent material. Where does this leave the serious general reader? This book approaches Caligula from a quite different angle, by presenting the reader with the raw material of the ancient sources. It provides over 300 translated passages of texts

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Author

Anthony A. Barrett; Anthony A. (Emeritus Professor Barrett, Emeritus Professor University of British Columbia); John C. (Emeritus Professor Yardley, Emeritus Professor University of Ottowa)

Publisher

Oxford University PressOxford

Published

2023

Language

EN

ISBN

9780198854579

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Memoir, History, Biography

Rating

3.54 / 5 (7,532 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14