“What can be salvaged from your life? A pain that gently darkens over heart and brain, a fairy's touch, a cobweb's weight… — Robert Lowell Copy Share Image
I'd quite like to be in Caligula's court - living in the back room somewhere and just being able to observe. — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
“Most people imagine that a man suffers because out of the blue, Death snatches away the woman he loves. But his real… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“-We live in Rome, he says, turning his face to the room again, -Caligula's Rome, with a new circus of vulgar bestialized… — William Gaddis Copy Share Image
“So much for the Emperor; the rest of this history must deal with the Monster. —IV:22” — Suetonius Copy Share Image
“Animals fattened for your for your arena suffered less than you in dying-yours the lawlessness of something simple that has lost its… — Robert Lowell Copy Share Image
“The Roman emperor Caligula allegedly planned to appoint his favourite horse, Incitatus, to the consulship.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Never were abilities so much below mediocrity so well rewarded; no, not when Caligula's horse was made Consul — John Randolph Copy Share Image
“Caligula wished that the Roman people had but one neck that he might cut it off, and as I read this letter… — Edward Bellamy Copy Share Image
“Caligula was a pervert and a tyrant. If the Roman emperor had any redeeming qualities, they weren’t immediately obvious. Unencumbered by things… — Natalie Kyriacou Copy Share Image
Mister Cameron - I have read the unexpurgated Ovid, the love poems of Sappho, the Decameron in the original, and a great… — Mercedes Lackey Copy Share Image