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None at all. He illustrates the dangers of hereditary rulership. As a child he was idolised, mainly because of his father, who was a genuinely heroic person. But on coming into office, following Tiberius, a bad ruler, he proved much worse.

Read the novel by Robert Graves "I, Claudius" for an entertaining account of Caligula's time in office (based on the surviving historical accounts).

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