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Emperor Caligula Didn't Go To War With Poseidon
Emperor Caligula Didn't Go To War With Poseidon - Unreal Facts
There is an often quoted fact that Roman Emperor Caligula once went to war with Poseidon, ordering his troops to throw spears into the sea. While crazy Roman Emperors appear not to be that rare, Caligula has gone down, along with Nero, as one of the most nutty among them.
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as hilarious as that story was,I always thought it was weird that what was quite obviously a tall tale was being told as truth.
It is likely that Suetonius created hundreds of stories like this under the Flavians in order to slander the Ceasers to legitimize the Flavians. It is unfortunate that The Twelve Ceasers is largest biography of the early Roman Empire but it does provide us with lots of other information as well.