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Caligula, l’empereur qui voulait être un dieu. Vicieux, cruel, dépravé, souffrant d’une mégalomanie confinant à la folie, Caligula a laissé à la postérité l’image d’un monstre. Une vision largement due à la plume des historiens de l’Antiquité, qui en ont fait un modèle du tyran décadent. De Virginie Girod.
27 janv. 2020 · Qui est Incitatus, le cheval de Caligula ? Le jeune empereur romain, tout à sa folie des grandeurs, a voulu décerner le titre de consul à son champion de course favori. Elevé dans les camps de ...
wanted to appoint his horse Incitatus as consul may lie in the misinterpretation of some. remark playing upon the similarity between the names of Asinius Celer and that of Incitatus. Perhaps Caligula criticized the candidacy of Celer for the suffect consulship. 17 On Claudius' appointment as consul, see Suet.
3 mai 2017 · The youth of Rome loved their horse-racing. The attention Caligula lavished on Incitatus went above and beyond that shown to prize steeds by other young aristocrats. He was the emperor, so bigger ...
Incitatus was Emperor Caligula 's favorite horse. He lived in Ancient Rome around 40 CE. His name means "fast-moving" in Latin . There is a story that Caligula made his horse a senator, but it is probably not true. According to historian Mary Beard, no ancient historian who was alive at the same time as Caligula ever said Caligula really made ...
Incitatus had his own staff, house, and stable. Guards were posted the night before the horse was racing so that Incitatus could have a good night’s rest. The horse slept in an ivory stall, with purple blankets and wore a jeweled harness. Caligula denied Incitatus nothing. He even organized dinner parties in the horse’s name.
4 févr. 2024 · Incitatus (whose name means “Impetuous”), was a chariot race stallion, originally from Hispania (today, Spain). Horses In Ancient Rome were largely imported from Hispania (around 10.000 horses per year); the romans prefered them above all, due to their beautiful heads, big size, soft and smooth skin, as well as their speed, strenghth and courage on the battlefield.
