Caligula opened with popular reforms—amnesties, tax relief, transparency—but after a severe illness turned to theatrical provocations, fiscal exactions, and ritual self‑cult, alienating elites and Praetorians and prompting his assassination: coercive strategy over madness.
Discover how cutting-edge artificial intelligence is reconstructing Rome's forgotten Silk Road connections, revealing surprising new insights about global trade networks that challenge conventional historical narratives.
