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.
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Discover how 2,000-year-old Roman insulae solved urban living challenges that plague our modern cities, from resource distribution to community design—and what we can learn from these ancient innovations.
