Ordinary people loved Caligula because he provided them entertainment, gladiatorial battles, horse races, and public executions. However, the young emperor also had a dark side.
The king of Macedonia considered himself a god; his admirers called him a military genius; his enemies considered him the devil. He used weapons of mass destruction of his day to defeat his enemies. What drove his quest for world domination and led him to massacre tens of thousands, including women and children and members of his own family?
Emperor Nero ruled a mighty empire, but he preferred to making music, acting and writing poems. The paranoid Nero felt no mercy on those who tried to keep him off the stage.
The infamous Queen of Egypt, known for her legendary powers of seduction, would stop at nothing, even murdering her entire family, to get her own way. Driven by power and ambition, her life was dominated by a heady cocktail of sex and murder.
