Caligula by Allan Massie

Caligula by Allan Massie

Gaius Caligula is known as the mad emperor, the one who made his horse a consul. He was violent and vicious, a murderer and guilty of committing incest with his sisters. Yet, when he succeeded the aged recluse Tiberius, the Romans were delighted and for a few months at least he seemed generous and enlightened. So what went wrong? Why was he murdered after a reign of only four years? Is the conventional picture true or false: was he mad and evil or the victim of circumstance and rumour? Is it possible to take a sympathetic view of Caligula... and is it possible to make sense of him? In his compelling new novel Allan Massie peels back the mask of the monster of popular myth to expose the young emperor as a real man and explore the truth of his brief but tempestuous reign.

CALIGULA is an impressive addition to a sequence of novels that in their sustained interest and detailed recreation of a society at once alien and familiar must rank as one of the most important historical chronicles in contemporary fiction* Barry Unsworth, Spectator *

Allan Massie is the award-winning author of twenty-five novels, including the Roman series Antony, Augustus, Tiberius, Caesar, Nero's Heirs and Caligula, as well as several works of non-fiction. Also a journalist and critic of fiction, he writes regularly for The Scotsman, Sunday Times (Scotland) and the Scottish Daily Mail and contributes to the Spectator, Literary Review and Catholic Herald. Born in Singapore, he grew up in Aberdeenshire and now lives in the Scottish borders. He was appointed a CBE in 2013.

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ISBN 13	9780340823149
ISBN 10	0340823143
Title	Caligula
Author	Allan Massie
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Hodder & Stoughton
Year published	2004-09-01
Number of pages	288
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