Most of us have heard the name Caligula. It is usually paired with horrible things this young emperor of Rome had done many moons ago. The lavish parties he threw, the abuse he imposed on others. The sex he had with his sister and his horse. His name almost always appears during times of change, times when… well, times like these.

We are resurrecting the emperor for a reason. Why he was like this or… was he? Maybe we were made to believe that the young Caligula, who never went to a single war, made senators pay their taxes, made senators’ wives work as whores of Rome, but was loved by the crowds of “simple” people was a horrible, horrible emperor. Hmmm…

Two different texts, one by Suetonius, a senator who wrote Caligula’s story a hundred years after his assassination, another by the existentialist author A. Camus, who looked at Caligula from a perspective of humanity and wrote his play during WWII. Dive deeper, you realize that some things just don’t make sense. You read between the lines. A realization comes, the one who writes your story is the one who has more power.

We are able to rewrite the history. We are able to question what is true and what is a distraction.We are reviving Caligula, so the birth of new Caligula is prevented. We ask, what was the real Caligula like and do we need another one?