Was Caligula a poor leader or good leader?

Answer 1

Gaius Caligula started out attempting to direct Roman governance to the benefit of the state and people, but went mad and is remembered for the second half of his office, which was terminated by his assassination.

Answer 2

Caligula was not a successful leader

Answer 3

Gaius Caligula started out attempting to direct Roman governance to the benefit of the state and people, but went mad and is remembered for the second half of his office, which was terminated by his assassination.

Answer 4

Like most leaders, Caligula was both a good leader and a bad leader at different times in his life. Most of the things that he did in his early career seem good, and there were good acts throughout his life, but they were also interspersed with bad things, or selfish things. Some people claim that he was insane, and he certainly thought too highly of himself, even building temples for people to worship him, but he also built roads, brought back exiles, and helped people who had tax problems.

Answer 5

He was a terrible empror for the following reasons:considered to be one of the most insane and evil men to ever live. Once at some games at which he was presiding, he ordered his guards to throw an entire section of the crowd into the arena during intermission to be eaten by animals because there were no criminals to be prosecuted and he was bored. More famously, he had his horse,Incitatus become a member of senate. He claimed to be a god.

Answer 6

Rome had always had its fair share of bad emperors. Caligula, Nero, Commodus are such examples. In a time when Left-handed people were considered unlucky, Emperor Caligula often appeared in public dressed in women's clothing. His favorite horse, Incitatus, lived in a marble stable, with an ivory manger. Caligula also tried to make him a consul the highest elected office of the Roman Republic and the most important job in the government. All classical accounts of Gaius 'Caligula' agree that he possessed elements of madness, cruelty, viciousness, extravagance and megalomania. He is described as a coarse and cruel despot with an extraordinary passion for sadism and a fierce energy. He could get extremely excited and angry. Caligula was tall, spindly, pale and prematurely bald. He was so sensitive about his lack of hair that it was a capital crime for anyone to look down from a high place as Caligula passed by. Sometimes he ordered those with a fine head of hair to be shaved. He made up for lack of hair on his head by an abundance of body-hair. About this too he could be equally sensitive; even the mention of "hairy goats" in conversation was dangerous. He used to grimace, which he practiced in front of a mirror, and he was an impressive orator. His great-uncle, the Emperor Tiberius, once said: 'There was never a better slave not a worse master than Caligula.

Answer 7

NO