Caligula, or Gaius as was his proper name, was the third Roman emperor. Immature and totally untrained for the job of emperor, some say he went mad, although his sanity situation is being reevaluated...
Caligula hurt the Roman empire more than helped it. The obvious was his immature actions and his lavish spending. However there was a deeper consequence to his reign and that was not only that he was...
Caligula had nothing to do with the collapse of the western Roman empire. He was only the third emperor and nothing he did could possibly affect events four hundred and thirty years in the future.