It was a good choice: Germanicus was a popular, charismatic general whom the soldiers respected as one of their own. His son, Caligula, had been born in an army camp and was a mascot to the Roman ...

The youngest son of the war hero, Germanicus, Gaius Caesar had grown up around soldiers and his nickname, Caligula ... he began blackmailing leading Roman families and confiscating their estates.

The infamous third Roman emperor, Caligula, who was known for his cruelty and erratic behaviour, got his nickname from the small caligae he wore as a child among his father's soldiers - literally ...

According to the historiographic tradition, the rampaging soldiers discovered Claudius ... among the plebs and others. A Very ...