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Visual depiction of Caligula

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Vol. V · Deified Humans

Caligula

Roman emperor who declared himself a living god and sat in the Temple of Castor receiving divine worship


his form costumed in turn as Jupiter, Neptune, and Venus

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This visual depiction is one of 1,947 in the archive — a creative historical rendering of how this culture has expressed the divine. The depiction is interpretive, not iconographic.