... empire quite successfully. Claudius was the emperor of Rome from forty-one A.D. to fifty-four A.D. During his reign, Claudius expanded the Roman Empire, extended the rights of Roman citizens, and opened up the Senate to men from Roman provinces (Levick). However, the Roman citizenry was sharply divided over Claudius" position of power. Many believed that Claudius was unfit to run the Empire, and numerous others ... opposed him because they aspired to hold the same position. Historically, Claudius has been seen as a capable ruler who helped to extend the power of the Roman ... and began...

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... two sisters in the same manor but frequently "prostituted them to his catamites." (Suetonius 263) But his insane acts were unfortunately not restricted to merely his family any member of Roman high society was lived under the fear of Caligula's insanity. Senators were not excluded from his madness. But rather they suffered just as much as his own family. "Some who ... restricted with very narrow limits; their tyranny fell almost exclusively upon the senatorial nobility in Rome." (259) Almost continuously through out Caligula's bizarre acts of insanity towards his family and senate there...

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... -altering hardships that could have been the cause of his unimaginable behavior later in his life. When Caligula was still very young, Tiberius, the current Roman emperor at the time, had Caligula's entire immediate family killed, excluding his three sisters (Kennedy). The most disturbing of the killings is what Tiberius ... be deeply disturbed, and for his mindset about life to be the worst it could possibly be. This was something that the entirety of the Roman Empire did not know about him. As result of the childhood that Tiberius gave Caligula, Caligula wanted revenge, and some histori...

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... . Tiberius" military training had given him a concern for order and discipline, which he saw as the basis of good government. In foreign policy, Tiberius primarily maintained the frontiers of the Roman Empire. Tiberius tried a new policy of containment by allowing some tribesmen to settle on the north bank of the river under their own ruler. They would act as a first line ... of no new region for the empire and despite his administrative abilities he showed such reluctance in running the state as to retire entirely from Rome. Though Tiberius treated the Senate with respect and was prepar...

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... on a somewhat smaller scale. (Domitian had numerous mistresses, and Nero bedded his mother) These were nowhere near the levels of the disgusting acts that Caligula perpetrated. Caligula, as did many Roman Emperors, had numerous shortcomings. Similar to his nephew Nero, he began his reign as a surprisingly capable ruler. It wasn't until the year 37 A.D that his downwards spiral into madness and ... senator with whom he had grown displeased. Instead of having him murdered in the conventional sense, he convinced several other senators to: Attack him suddenly, on his entrance into the Senat...

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