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Caligula's purported pleasure garden to go on public display following decade-long excavation Roman emperor Caligula, who ruled briefly almost 2,000 years ago, was considered a tyrant, a hedonist and even a pervert. And much of his debauchery purportedly took place at an imperial pleasure garden called Horti Lamiani. In recent years, a vast garden complex believed to be his has been painstakingly unearthed and restored. Social Sharing CBC Radio · Posted: Jan 26, 2021 5:22 PM ET | Last Updated: January 26 A fresco from the Julio-Claudian era found in the excavation of Horti Lamiani, the imperial garden sprawled across Rome's Esquiline Hill.(Fabio Caricchia/Soprintendenza Speciale di Roma)
Caligulaâs Garden of Delights, Unearthed and Restored Relics from the favorite hideaway of ancient Romeâs most infamous tyrant have been recovered and put on display by archaeologists. Â A theatrical mask in marble dust, recovered from the Horti Lamiani, the pleasure garden of the Roman emperor Caligula.Credit...Nadia Shira Cohen for The New York Times By Franz Lidz The fourth of the 12 Caesars, Caligula â officially, Gaius Julius Caesar Germanicus â was a capricious, combustible first-century populist remembered, perhaps unfairly, as the empireâs most tyrannical ruler. As reported by Suetonius, the Michael Wolff of ancient Rome, he never forgot a slight, slept only a few hours a night and married several times, lastly to a woman named Milonia.
Rethinking Nero: was the Roman emperor really so bad? For centuries Emperor Nero has occupied a place in history’s hall of infamy, courtesy of tales of Christian burning, wife beating and mother murdering. Yet does he truly deserve his diabolical reputation? Shushma Malik considers the evidence Published: December 16, 2020 at 9:00 am In the late 19th century, the French philosopher Ernest Renan wrote a seven-volume history of Christianity. It was a vast, wide-ranging publication, spanning centuries and continents. Yet one of these volumes was dedicated entirely to the reign of one man: the Roman emperor Nero. Advertisement Nero ascended to power in AD 54 following the death of his step-father, Claudius. Fourteen chaotic, blood-spattered years later it was all over, Nero dying – perhaps by his own hand – at the climax of a rebellion against his rule. But this, Renan said, wasn’t the last the world would see of him. Nero would return to Earth again, and his second coming would signal the time of the apocalypse. “The name for Nero has been found,” the philosopher declared. “Nero shall be the