The Incest Rap of Caligula

There is no solid evidence of sexual activity between the two, and coupled with this more general embrace of living godhood. Caligula basically did everything in his power to make it hard for people to believe otherwise. Any challenge to Caligula's whims was fast becoming a capital offense. He didn't even bother working up any kind of paranoid fantasy to explain who he was targeting. Men and women now lived in perpetual fear that they would say the wrong thing or do the right thing at the wrong time.