Over 17 days he secretly planted without suspicion unpleasant, horrific witchcraft seeming apparitions around the house he, his mother and father were staying in an attempt to frighten his father to death so the poison he administered to his father provided by Martina would take a hold quicker in the process removing a green jasper charm of the Goddess Hecate that would be later discovered by his Great Grandmother Livia. Mentally disturbed from a young age he believed himself to have been born a god awaiting divine metamorphosis resentful of his father who tried to discipline his bad behavior, at the age of 10 he was used in a conspiracy to murder his father hatched by the resentful Governor of Syria Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso and his wife Plancina who used a renowned poisoner named Martina who had struck up a friendship with Caligula whilst at Antioch who convinced him to prove his status as a Hellenistic god by helping her to kill Germanicus. The youngest son of Emperor Augustus's granddaughter Agrippina the Elder and the heroic Roman general Germanicus, the young Gaius was taken along to his fathers military campaigns in Germany as the armies mascot dressed as a miniature soldier complete with 'little boots' or 'Caligae' hence his everlasting nickname of Caligula. Mole in Thumbelina, Percival Graves in King Ralph, and Lord Cotys in Hercules. He was portrayed by the late John Hurt, who also portrayed The Horned King in The Black Cauldron, Claudandus in Felidae, Adam Sutler in V For Vendetta, Sailor John in The Legend of the Lost Treasure, Harry in Pride, Mr. He is portrayed as a flamboyant, deeply disturbed egomaniac whose rule as emperor descended from seemingly peaceful rule into perpetual madness and chaos. Gaius ' Caligula' is the third Emperor of Rome in the 1976 BBC serial drama I, Claudius, based on the book of the same name by Robert Graves. ~ Caligula to his sister Drusilla before carving the fetus from her womb with a botched caesarian and swallowing it whole in an attempt to recreate the birth of Athena. ~ Caligula to his Uncle Claudius after awakening from his coma believing himself to have undergone a 'Metamorphosis' into a god.

While by the time I was ten I'd already killed my father. Think about it when I was two I put down a mutiny in my father's army and so saved Rome. I always knew this would happen, I always knew I was divine.

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