Caligula - Atrocities and Tortures

Here is a list of Atrocities and Tortures carried out by Caligula

Tortures

Beaten of Flayed

• Writers at the Grecian games at Syracuse and Attic plays at Lyons in Gaul were beaten with a rod or thrown in twater if their praises did not meet with Caligula's approval.

[Performers]...were forced to blot out what they had written with a sponge or their tongue, unless they preferred to be beaten with a rod, or plunged over head and ears into the nearest river

Victims of Atrocities occasioning Death

Suffication/Strangulation

• Tiberius . He allegedly sufficated and strangled Tiberius, his step-father as he lay dying.

He caused a pillow to be thrown upon him , squeezing him by the throat, at the same time, with his own hand

Crucification

• Freedman. Freedman of Tiberius who witnessed his death at the hands of Caligula

One of his freedmen crying out at this horrid barbarity, he was immediately crucified

Poisoning

• Antonia, his grandmother may have been poisoned by Caligula

Indignities of this kind, and ill usage, were the cause of her death; but some think he also gave her poison

Stabbings and Decapitations

• His cousin Tiberius Gemellus had previously been made joint heir by Tiberius. Caligula had him murdered on the pre-text that he was plotting against him in 37AD

His brother Tiberius, who had no expectation of any violence, was suddenly dispatched by a military tribune sent by his order for that purpose.