# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/caligula
# Generated: 2026-08-31T20:24:12.734Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/caligula"
name: "Caligula"
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description: "Roman emperor from AD 37 to 41, known primarily through accounts written by hostile senators long after his death — accounts that painted him as a deranged tyrant who worshipped himself as a god and tried to make his horse a consul. Modern historians argue much of it was exaggeration or malicious fantasy."
tagline: "Third Roman emperor (37–41)"
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1912-08-31"
deathDate: "1941-01-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born in AD 12 as Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, he earned the nickname "Caligula" from his father's soldiers in Germania when he was barely five. His father Germanicus died in AD 19, and his mother Agrippina's feud with Emperor Tiberius destroyed the family, leaving Caligula the sole male survivor. He joined Tiberius on Capri in 31 and inherited the throne in 37 at twenty-four. Early sources claim he began well — generous and fair — then descended into cruelty, extravagance, and sadism, demanding worship and humiliating the Senate. He built aqueducts, expanded infrastructure, annexed Mauretania, but abandoned an invasion of Britain. In early 41, Praetorian officers and senators stabbed him to death in what may have been an attempt to restore the Republic — a plan the Praetorians scuttled by immediately proclaiming his uncle Claudius emperor.