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Aloys Winterling

Autore di Caligola: dietro la follia

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Aloys Winterling holds a chair for Ancient History at Humboldt University of Berlin. He is the author of Aula Caesaris and Politics and Society in Imperial Rome, among other books.

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male
Nazionalità
Germany
Attività lavorative
historian

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Not a very engaging book. It does get repetitive at times. A pity since it does present a different look at Caligula looking back at the source material. In brief, the thesis is that Caligula was not "crazy" or "insane" per se. It is more a matter of being insane as when someone is a tyrant, you call them insane, but they are not insane because they suffer from a mental defect. It is a distinction the author makes after looking at his life, the challenges he faced as a youth trying to stay alive in the court of an emperor who killed his family and then survive the plots end events of his reign. In terms of reading, it is an ok work, but the repetitiveness does wear on you. You may find yourself skimming quite a bit.… (altro)
 
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bloodravenlib | 4 altre recensioni | Aug 17, 2020 |
A well researched theory on the smear job done to Caligula's reputation.
 
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ShelleyAlberta | 4 altre recensioni | Jun 4, 2016 |
A revisionist biography advocating persuasively that Caligula was not insane, only portrayed as mad because the aristocracy so hated him.
 
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NLytle | 4 altre recensioni | Jul 3, 2015 |
Biografía que pretende poner en solfa a las fuentes antiguas (Suetonio principalmente) que difundieron la locura de este emperador, que tras dos años buenos se volvió loco, déspota, impredecible y "divino". Recordemos que Graves achacó su mal comportamiento al vicio que le inculcó Tiberio en Capri y hasta se ha tratado en películas.

El punto de partida de Winterling es interesante. Para él, el comportamiento de Calígula es una reacción a las diversas conspiraciones en su contra procedentes de la clase senatorial, y a que puso en tela de juicio la relación hipócrita entre el Príncipe y el Senado -uno detenta el poder sin ejercerlo a las claras y otro no lo posee pero parece que lo ejerce-. Para el autor todas las reacciones psicóticas se debieron al deseo de Calígula de humillar y evidenciar la hipocresía de la clase aristocrática.

Escrito más como una novela que como un texto histórico se lee de manera amena y con interés. El propio autor deja sufiicentes pistas para seguir, si se desea, el argumentario docto para confrontar la verosimilitud de la tesis que propone.
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Herrford.the.first | 4 altre recensioni | Mar 18, 2014 |

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6
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Utenti
131
Popolarità
#154,467
Voto
½ 3.5
Recensioni
5
ISBN
19
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5

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