The Popular Anime Emperor Caligula Horse Collection 2020
Meaning swift or at full gallop was the favourite horse of roman emperor caligula reigned 37 41 ad. This has usually been overlooked perhaps because dio mentions it in a different section.
Caligula with his beloved horse incitatus.
Emperor caligula horse. According to the ancient historian suetonius the roman emperor known as caligula loved one of his horses incitatus so much that he gave the steed a marble stall an ivory manger a jeweled. 24 january ad 41 known for. Gaius caesar augustus germanicus born.
Caligula loved his horse incitatus. Caligula k ə ˈ l ɪ ɡ j ʊ l ə. He lavished his fine steed with attention giving him his own house with a marble stall and an ivory manger and even openly expressed his plans to declare his horse a roman consulate.
According to legend caligula planned to make him a consul. At least maybe this is what caligula believed because as history states he made his favorite horse incitatus a consul and gave the steed a marble stall an ivory manger a jeweled collar and even a house. In 37 ad the people of rome rejoiced when they finally gained a new emperor.
The dour emperor tiberius was dead and it was good riddance as far as the populace was concerned. For tiberius had instigated a wave of treason trials and executions that had disrupted society. Looking back it certainly seems like ancient rome had more than its fair share of vainglorious sadistic and crazed emperors there s the mad emperor himself caligula who legend says made his horse incitatus a government consul there s the frustrated artist nero who burned rome to the ground went on a christian massacring crusade and murdered both his mother and mistress turned wife.
Unfortunately he died before he could make this dream a reality. Cassius dio states that caligula made a horse assumed to be incitatus a priest of the emperor s cult. Though he ruled rome as emperor for only four years caligula has been immortalised as one of history s most cruel and erratic leaders earning the nickname caligula little boots in childhood he would be immortalised as one of rome s cruellest and most.
Caligula the infamous roman emperor who made his horse a senator. August ad 12 died. 31 august 12 24 january 41 formally known as gaius gaius caesar augustus germanicus was the third roman emperor ruling from ad 37 to 41 the son of the popular roman general germanicus and augustus granddaughter agrippina the elder caligula was born into the first ruling family of the roman empire conventionally known as the julio claudian.
