{"id":117700,"date":"2023-01-26T18:59:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-26T17:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/?post_type=ciekawostki&#038;p=117700"},"modified":"2023-01-26T18:59:00","modified_gmt":"2023-01-26T17:59:00","slug":"caligula-in-arena","status":"publish","type":"ciekawostki","link":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/curiosities\/caligula-in-arena\/","title":{"rendered":"Caligula in arena"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/biografie\/cesarz-kaligula\/\">Emperor Caligula<\/a><\/b> (reigned 37-41 CE) went down in history as one of the worst rulers of the <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-constitution\/roman-empire\/\">Roman Empire<\/a>. Many stories about him arose in the works of writers who came from senatorial circles. Among other things, <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/biographies\/suetonius\/\">Suetonius<\/a> describes that <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/biographies\/caligula\/\">Caligula<\/a> himself allegedly participated in <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/spoleczenstwo\/rozrywka-w-starozytnym-rzymie\/walki-gladiatorow\/\">gladiator fights<\/a>.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In one duel, he fought <em>murmillo<\/em>, who was equipped with a wooden sword. At one point, his rival deliberately fell to the ground to show the emperor&#8217;s dominance. Caligula, however, without much thought, pulled out a real dagger, stabbed him to death and ran around the arena triumphant.<\/p>\n<p>Often, the emperor deliberately ordered that a special canvas roof (the so-called <em>velum<\/em>) should not be erected over the stands on hot days. In such heat, he ordered the spectators to watch duels, rejoicing at the suffering of the people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":40753,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"kategorie_ciekawostek":[83],"class_list":["post-117700","ciekawostki","type-ciekawostki","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","kategorie_ciekawostek-ancient-stories"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/117700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ciekawostki"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/117700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kategorie_ciekawostek","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kategorie_ciekawostek?post=117700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}