Caligula : (12-41 AD) nick-name of Gaius Caesar, son of Germanicus Caesar. He was known as Caligula after he succeeded Tiberius as Roman emperor (37-41).
... this view of the world is admittedly repugnant to man. In 9. Albert Camus, Le Mythe de Sisyphe. 10. Ibid. Page 191 Camus's play Caligula, Cherea asserts that he rejects the world as Caligula sees it, "because I want to live and to be happy. I believe that one can neither live nor be happy if one pushes the absurd to all its conclusions.... To lose one's life... not the steps of thought but the steps of existence". For then and then alone our way of knowing would be appropriate to that which is to be known and we would come to 11.Albert Camus, Caligula, p. 35. 12.Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga, p. 28. Page 192 see that world-existence is not a mere magic void of all reason; there is a logic in it, because there are relations ...
... Julian emperors as strange products for stoical virtue-ridden Rome, when we know that Tiberius was a Clausus, one of the great Italian houses renowned for its licence, cruelty, pride and genius, and Caligula the son and Nero the grandson of Germanicus, who drew his blood from Mark Antony. Science is right in its materialist data, though not always in the inferences it draws from them and when she tells ...
... an old dream revived. For days I longed for horses. I even wished I could have one staying with me in my room. I could understand the redeeming mania of that monster of cruelty, the Roman emperor Caligula. He had a horse which he adored. It was given the best apartment in the royal palace and was made to attend all the meetings of the Roman Senate, Whenever a law was to be passed, the stallion was ...
... apocalypse haunted me for weeks. I even thought how marvellous it would be if I could have this horse living with me in my room! I believe that in a past birth I must have been the Roman emperor Caligula. He was a monster of cruelty but he had one transcendent redeeming feature. He had a horse which he adored. It was given the most luxurious apartment in the royal palace. Every day it was taken ...
... al birth brought about by a deity's intervention was surmised for Augustus. Whatever the travesty of the deific title in relation to Page 5 some of his successors like Nero, Caligula and Domitian who claimed it as an inheritance from its first bearer, here was a natural spontaneous ascription by his compatriots to one felt to be of extraordinary greatness, as if sent by Heaven ...
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