[I still care]

To me this story is just more evidence that scholarly types have difficulty believing true evil exists.

I don't think people living nowadays can concieve of the barbarity of some ancient "civilizations".

[Wilhelm Tell]

Unfortunately, many scholars are thorough-going statists. A lot of people getting tenure worship Castro and some even still try to whitewash Stalin's crimes, so why not excuse Caligula as well? I dread the day it becomes official, politically-correct dogma to rehabilitate Hitler. America isn't quite dumbed-down enough for that, but, I fear, America may someday become that dumbed-down.

I once read an article that said the Romans became so messed-up because they used lead pipes to carry water and many people, including numerous crazy emperors, became insane due to lead poisoning. I don't know how true that is. A lot of things in Imperial Rome went far beyond bad behavior, as if people were not in their right minds at all.

[ConservativeConvert]

EXACTLY. I have studied ancient Roman history extensively and have read the ancient accounts of Caligula's megalomania without any doubt as to their veracity. The same "academics" who doubt such behavior could have been possible are among the same folks who would have protested against the war acting as Saddamite apologists.

Revisionist historians are full of ca-ca.

[Princeliberty]

I have always found it so arrogant the way
the modern scholars are quick to assume acient
sources are lying.


I think one the reasons they do it, is that
hate the Bible and always tried to say
it is false and that attitude of saying
ancient sources are false because of the desirer
to undermine the Bible has spilled over
to Ancient history in general.