Caligula

revolt and Caligula is assassinated on January 24, 41. Unlike Tiberius, Caligula was not concerned with having a

surplus in the Roman treasury. He soon answered them

with acts of tyranny and began to have people executed at whim. The people of Rome knew that he was

depleting the treasury, and quickly became unpopular. He banished

or murdered most of his own relatives. He succeeded his granduncle

Tiberius in the year 37. Caligula was very popular with the army at first since he

had served himself. His retreat is to Capri where he indulges himself in immoral acts

with young boys, among others. Caligula committed incest with two of his

three sisters.

In 37, Caligula becomes ill, and tells all that he is not really ill, but is

metamorphasizing into a god. This all becomes

too much for the people of Rome. He then forces the Senate to deify himself and his

three sisters. He also forces the Sensate to make his horse a Senator on the

grounds that it is Alexander The Great’s horse reincarnated.