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To: Beowulf9

I wonder how the book is. Irving’s a lot of fun to listen to.


22 posted on 10/23/2025 12:03:30 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (NeverTrumpin' -- it's not just for DNC shills anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Was thinking the same but the hard cover is going for close to 90 dollars, I would get the soft cover version!

In reading about Rome one time, I forget where, I read Caligula, said by or to immediate family, maybe wife who was telling people who were going to visit his grave that he was a ghost, shrieking all about where he was buried. I wondered if that might be in his book.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1529303265?tag=smithsonianco-20&linkCode=ogi&th=1&psc=1


25 posted on 10/23/2025 12:39:09 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: SunkenCiv

Was Suetonius said it.

“Per the New York Times, the Roman historian Suetonius claimed that Caligula’s ghost remained behind to haunt the gardens”.

But I read it in The Twelve Caesars and there may have been more than that blurb.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/underground-gallery-showcase-caligulas-imperial-garden-180976745/


26 posted on 10/23/2025 12:46:07 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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