Anthony A. Barrett is Emeritus Professor of Classics, University of British Columbia, where he taught from 1968 to 2008. He currently resides in Heidelberg, Germany.J.C. Yardley is Emeritus Professor of Classics, University of Ottawa, where he taught from 1989 to 2010. He currently resides in Milton, Ontario.

• Preface Important Events List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Further Reading Significant Events Introduction 1: Family and Childhood 2: Young Caligula 3: Accession 4: Tensions 5: The Private Caligula 6: The Public Caligula 7: Outside Rome 8: Assassination Glossary

This book includes 'over three hundred translated passages' from literary texts, coins, and inscriptions. The audience is 'serious readers' and students 'in the broadest sense' (p. vi), but explicitly not Classicists. Indeed, a researcher will regret that it is not exhaustive in its collation of parallels, but it might be a good book for someone to read beside a traditional biography.

Anthony A. Barrett is Emeritus Professor of Classics, University of British Columbia, where he taught from 1968 to 2008. He currently resides in Heidelberg, Germany.J.C. Yardley is Emeritus Professor of Classics, University of Ottawa, where he taught from 1989 to 2010. He currently resides in Milton, Ontario.

• Preface Important Events List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Further Reading Significant Events Introduction 1: Family and Childhood 2: Young Caligula 3: Accession 4: Tensions 5: The Private Caligula 6: The Public Caligula 7: Outside Rome 8: Assassination Glossary

This book includes 'over three hundred translated passages' from literary texts, coins, and inscriptions. The audience is 'serious readers' and students 'in the broadest sense' (p. vi), but explicitly not Classicists. Indeed, a researcher will regret that it is not exhaustive in its collation of parallels, but it might be a good book for someone to read beside a traditional biography.

Anthony A. Barrett is Emeritus Professor of Classics, University of British Columbia, where he taught from 1968 to 2008. He currently resides in Heidelberg, Germany.J.C. Yardley is Emeritus Professor of Classics, University of Ottawa, where he taught from 1989 to 2010. He currently resides in Milton, Ontario.

• Preface Important Events List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Further Reading Significant Events Introduction 1: Family and Childhood 2: Young Caligula 3: Accession 4: Tensions 5: The Private Caligula 6: The Public Caligula 7: Outside Rome 8: Assassination Glossary

This book includes 'over three hundred translated passages' from literary texts, coins, and inscriptions. The audience is 'serious readers' and students 'in the broadest sense' (p. vi), but explicitly not Classicists. Indeed, a researcher will regret that it is not exhaustive in its collation of parallels, but it might be a good book for someone to read beside a traditional biography.