Another Emperor has come and gone from these lands. Caligula, also known as Gaius, succeeded his grandfather, Tiberius, in XXXVII AD. Right away his reign started off with drama. There are rumours that he and the Pretorian Prefect Macro suffocated him with a pillow!
So obviously we knew this guy was bad news.
Maybe that's misleading. At first the Greeks thought he was a great god. I mean, sure, he comes from a powerful linage, and abolished the sales tax (woohoo!), but then he got sick after ruling for VII months and everything went downhill. I personally benifeted from his lavish spending on the cities, and didn't have to worry about the soldiers invading my fields since he didn't want to spend on war, BUT THIS MAN IS A DIRTY DOG. He tried to put a statue of himself in the Temple of Jerusalem!!!
I'd have spat on him and gladly died for it if I had ever seen him. In XLI he was assassinated by his own guard.
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