According to Suetonius, in the first year of Caligula's reign he squandered 2. Standard tickets are available at www. Based on the works of Suetonius The story of Caligula begins in a Rome plagued by the paranoia of its current ruler, Tiberius.

Previewing from 16 June, with World Refugee Day on 20 June, The Jungle will have an Opening Night on 5 July at the Playhouse Theatre, with rehearsal photography released today. During his reign, the empire annexed the of as a. Caligula considered Chaerea effeminate because of a weak voice and for not being firm with tax collection.

- At one time, there were detailed contemporaneous histories on Caligula, but they are now lost.

By Claudio Lavanga and Saphora Smith ROME — The Roman Emperor Caligula is renowned for his sadistic, debauched rule of ancient Rome that led to his assassination after just four years in power. Now Italian and American authorities are wondering how a piece of his decadent lifestyle — an elaborate inlaid marble mosaic from one of his ceremonial ships — wound up as a coffee table on Manhattan's Upper East Side. To antiques dealer Helen Fioratti it's quite simple: She and her husband Nereo, an Italian journalist, bought the antiquity more than 45 years ago from an Italian aristocratic family, who lived on the shores of Lake Nemi. A piece of Caligula's ship, on display at the Consulate General of Italy in Manhattan. The ancient marble mosaic was ceremonially returned to the Italian government in New York. By the time the couple came to purchase the object in the 1960s she said they had no reason to question the ownership. We thought they owned it. Everyone thought they owned it. Most of the marble flooring was only found during excavations of the shipwreck between 1928 and 1932, under the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. The fascist government then built the museum for the ships and the Italian authorities believe the flooring was looted from that site following World War II. Fioratti could not remember how much she and her husband paid for it, but said that it cost thousands of dollars. She said it was arranged for the approximately four-foot-square antiquity to be shipped to New York where the couple mounted it on a stand and used it as a coffee table. The rare antiquity is part of a wider collection of stolen-Italian artifacts found in the U. Among other finds was an Apulian red figure krater dated to around 360-350 B. An investigation by the Italian authorities found that the krater — an ancient vessel used for mixing wine and water — had been illegally exported by a well-known Italian international artifacts trafficker. The trove of treasurers also included ancient coins, antique books and manuscripts, and bronze prehistoric statuettes, the Italians authorities said. The Manhattan district attorney's office said no criminal charges have been filed against Fioratti. She said she does not intend to fight the repatriation of the object in court because her lawyer said it could take up to 20 years to fight. But the widow said she was saddened to lose the piece. I had people who were interested in antiquities admiring it in my home all the time.

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