What the fuck was his problem? Do any of the accounts of him

The aristocracy liked him at first because the he wasn't a dick to the senate like Tiberius. Once he stopped sucking senatorial cock they made up all kinds of fake news about him.

Both Caligula and Nero were demonized. For example. When Rome burned, Nero wasn't even there, but he was still blamed for it. Caligula wanting to make horse a senator was another thing. It was meant to be a joke, like "my horse would do a better job than you senators", but historians took it literally.

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>>2077008
Why were historians such biased faggots back then? Was it required since they were sponsored, or because so few people outside the noble classes were literate and rich enough to afford paper?

>>2077686
Roman historians were greasy as fuck, they constantly rewrote history to match whatever their patrons (like a sitting emperor or consul) wanted. Keep in mind "being a historian" was a new thing, in that at the start of the Roman Republic, there basically wasn't such a thing as historians, it was several hundred years into Roman history that eventually Rome became prosperous and cosmopolitan enough to make history-keeping a thing (but by that point, historians had to rely on rumors and legends to write things about what came before them). It took even longer before people decided maybe historians shouldn't be huge liars.

>>2076052
Likely suffered a bad fever/sickness which fucked his brain up although some stories (like making his horse a Senator which was his way of saying "fuck you") are exaggerated. The incest and shit especially.

>>2076052
>The beginning of his reign saw praise on his behalf for being wise, noble, and just.

He was only pretending, dummy.

>>2076276
I'm really interested in Tiberius, he went from one of Rome's greatest and most respect generals to the tyrant emperor with the greatest porn collection.
He had a pretty shit personal life, rumors about him everywhere.
Didn't the wife of a senator kill herself because Tiberius had his way with her?