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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: emperor Caligula in the ancient sources
  name:
    name part: Barrett, Anthony
    name part: 1941-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Yardley, John
    name part: 1942-
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  genre: Biographies
  genre: Biographies.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2023
    copyright date: 2023
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (204 pages)
  abstract: "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. 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. This book approaches Caligula by presenting the reader with the raw material of the ancient sources. It provides over three hundred translated passages of texts, taken mainly from ancient writers, but also from coins and inscriptions. The translations are accompanied by extensive introductions and notes. These are tailored to the non-specialist, and intended to help such readers navigate material that is often contradictory, often downright incredible, and also place events and institutions in their historical contexts. The colourful and exotic incidents are still there, but presented in a context that will help the reader gain a more sophisticated understanding of how we try to reconstruct events of the past. This approach allows the reader to tackle head on the stark reality that what we read in our sources is not necessarily the truth"--Publisher's description.
  table of contents: Introduction -- Family and childhood -- Young Caligula -- Accession -- Tensions -- The private Caligula -- The public Caligula -- Outside Rome -- Assassination.
  note: Anthony A. Barrett and J.C. Yardley.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
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    geographic code: ff-----
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Emperor of Rome
      name part: Caligula
      name part: 12-41
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Emperor of Rome
      name part: Caligula
      name part: 12-41
  subject:
    topic: Emperors
    geographic: Rome
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    geographic: Rome
    topic: History
    temporal: Caligula, 37-41
    genre: Sources
  subject:
    topic: Empereurs
    geographic: Rome
    genre: Biographies
  subject:
    geographic: Rome
    topic: Histoire
    temporal: 37-41 (Caligula)
    genre: Sources
  subject:
    topic: Emperors
  subject:
    geographic: Rome (Empire)
  subject:
    topic: Archaeology
  subject:
    topic: History
  classification: DG283 .B37 2023
  classification: 937/.07092
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    title info:
      title: Emperor Caligula in the ancient sources
    name:
      name part: Barrett, Anthony, 1941-
    origin info:
      publisher: Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2023]
    identifier: (DLC) 2022948820
    identifier: (OCoLC)1363102410
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  record info:
    record content source: EBLCP
    record creation date: 230408
    record change date: 20260318165534.4
    record identifier: in00005698391
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng