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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gam3rBlake, post: 7642102, member: 115909&quot;]Hmm nope I haven’t seen on of those yet.</p><p><br /></p><p>I do know Caligula was seperated from his 3 sisters Agrippina, Drusilla and Livilla when he was a child and that when he became Emperor he brought them back to Rome to serve as advisors.</p><p><br /></p><p>Eventually he impregnated his sister Drusilla (she was considered to be the most beautiful of the 3) and she died.</p><p><br /></p><p>Shortly after her death is when his madness began. He named Drusilla a Goddess (a big deal since not even Augustus’s wife had been made a goddess) and then declared “days of mourning” where no Roman could go about their trade.</p><p><br /></p><p>Rumor is one unfortunate Roman was executed for selling hot water during one of these “days of mourning.”</p><p><br /></p><p>Although when you realize what a traumatic life Caligula had its actually surprising he didn’t go crazy earlier.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think his traumatic life (his earliest days as a child were spent with his father Germanicus in war zones, not exactly great places for children) &amp; his “brain fever” that left him in a coma for months are what drove him mad.</p><p><br /></p><p>He wasn’t always crazy though.</p><p><br /></p><p>It’s just a shame Germanicus died/was killed before he became Emperor. Historians call him “The greatest Emperor&nbsp; that Rome <i>never </i>had.”[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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