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Caligula: The Madness of a Goat Many studies have been made on the emperor Gaius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, or “Caligula.” He was professed to be the maddest, and cruelest of all Roman emperors. As emperor, Caligula put the imperial treasury in severe debt, performed acts of insanity, and committed scandalous sexual acts. The ludicrous deeds he participated in, and carried out left the Roman Empire in infamy. During the reign of Tiberius, the captain of …

…those beneath him and would often justify himself by saying, “Let them hate me as long as they fear me!” In Machiavelli’s The Prince, the question arises whether it is better to be loved or feared. It is a shame that Caligula could not have read it. He would have learned that every malicious deed he performed, he was signing his own death warrant, and no one would mourn him when he was gone.