SUMMARY OF EVIDENCE Gaius Julius Caesar Germanicus was born on August 31, 12 AD to Agrippina and Germanicus Julius Caesar. He had two brothers, Nero and Drusus and three sisters, Julia Livia, Agrippina the Younger and Drusilla. Suetonius described in detail a condition Gaius suffered from. Suetonius said that Gaius “as a child he suffered from a falling disease,” which we now presume was epilepsy. At the age of two, Gaius participated with his father, Germanicus, in several bloody campaigns in the territory of Germania. During campaigns, he wore child-sized armor and boots, leading soldiers to call him Caligula, meaning "little boots." His father was very successful in military campaigns in the north, which made him and his family famous and loved by the people. As Germanicus grew in popularity, Tiberius (the emperor at the time) conspired against him to weaken his influence and poisoned him. Germanicus died soon after at Antioch in AD 19. After his father's death, Caligula lived with his mother and siblings. Caligula's mother, Agrippina the Elder, could not hide her animosity against Tiberius in Rome for his involvement in the murder of her husband Germanicus. To silence Caligula's mother, Tiberius had her tried for treason and then, according to historian P. Roberts, "banished to the island of Pandataria off the Campanian coast where she died of starvation in 33". Along with Agrippina, Tiberius also banished Caligula's brother Nero, who also died in exile with his mother. The deaths of Caligula's mother, Agrippina, and his brother Nero, however, were not enough to please Tiberius' supremacy over Roman politics. Caligula's other brother, Drusus, who was furious at his father's death,...... middle of paper...... Ula's reign, however, makes it easy to forget the underlying causes of Caligula's madness. Caligula didn't just transform overnight into a crazed, violent sexual deviant. In order to understand the synthesis of Caligula's madness, one must explore his life that led to his crazy behavior as emperor. Using sources from the past and present, we can conclude that Caligula's madness during his adulthood as emperor was compiled over the years of his painful and brutal childhood past before finally coming to light. , and that it was rather a series of contingent traumatic events that led to Caligula's increasing madness and ultimately led to his demise. With tons of emotional damage, incest, and epilepsy, it's very clear that Caligula was plagued by many mental issues during his childhood that would follow him into adulthood..