I think many people are not familiar with this name. Yes, Nero's name "tyrant" is too loud. As a result, not many people know the real tyrant in the history of the Roman Empire.
If Nero's atrocities come from the smear of political winners. Then Caliguda was really dark and crazy, and his reign was also called "the dark age of ancient Rome"!
Who's Regula? Rome is a city. It was not built in a day. But every builder of it wants to live forever with such a city. They did it, and Rome is still there quietly today. And those builders who are still dead, with the existence of this city, are recorded by time and gain eternal life in another sense. At least as long as humans exist, they will be remembered forever.
Those former Roman builders, whether they are good or bad, gave life to Rome. In return, Rome also engraved them in history.
But there is one exception!
Both the city of Rome and the Roman Empire itself deliberately obliterated his existence. No one in ancient Rome wanted to mention his name, and no one wanted future generations to know what he had done. It's all because of his atrocities, which is really outrageous.
He is the Roman "mad king" Regula!
Regula's rule was very short, only four years. But these four years were called "the dark ages of Rome" by the Roman Empire. It can be seen that in these short four years, he went against his will.
With the progress of science, many new disciplines have also joined archaeological discoveries. Although the ancient Romans tried their best to cover up this history, scholars had a general understanding of the life story of Ka Regula. But it is precisely because of what he did that scholars became suspicious.
There is an old saying in China: "beginning of life, human nature is good." No one is born evil, and neither is Ka Regula. Judging from the decrees issued in his first year in power, although it is not brilliant, it is not bad.
But since the second year, his condition has gone from bad to worse. In the fourth year, the whole Roman Empire could no longer stand his behavior. What made Ka Regula become a pervert, thug and bloodthirsty person in three years?
All this needs to start with his life experience!
Father Caliguda had a good father, at least for the Romans. His father is a godlike figure, their hero and a girl's dream lover.
His father was called Germanic Nikus, the adopted grandson of Augustus and the grandfather of Nero, a famous tyrant.
Germanic Nikus Rome enjoys a high reputation. Because of his military talent, the Romans even compared him with Caesar the conqueror. Unfortunately, he died young and Ka Regula was adopted by his uncle Tiberius. So when Regula's uncle, Emperor Tiberius of Rome, announced Regula as the next emperor. Rome has no opposition. On the contrary, everyone is expecting Rygula.
Because he also has a hero father. It is thought that his father's excellent qualities will be passed on to Ka Regula. So when Regula was brought back to Rome by his uncle Tiberius, he was warmly welcomed by the Roman people.
Perhaps the Romans did the same, blindly believing that Regula would inherit his father's excellent qualities, which led to the final bitter fruit.
I have to mention the political structure of the Roman Empire at that time. Although Octavian has ended the Roman era, the Senate has remained. All Roman emperors knew that he needed the Senate to stabilize the situation. Members of the Senate also know that they need a leader to control the future direction of the empire.
This constitutes a stable political structure, and the emperor needs the approval of the Senate to exercise his rights. The emperor restricted the rights of the Senate. Without the approval of the emperor, the bill issued by the Senate is a pile of waste paper. Under such checks and balances, the political stability of the Roman Empire was guaranteed.
In other words, after Regula became the Roman emperor, he needed the approval of the Senate to gain power.
There is no denying that Ka Regula is an excellent speaker, or a liar. It took him only a few hours to get the right to be an emperor from the Senate, which took ten years. This is only once in the history of Rome, and it is also the only time that it has brought irreparable disaster.
Regula, a demon who suddenly woke up, did an excellent job in the first six months of the Roman emperor. He is very popular with the people, and the Senate considers it a successful investment. But after half a year in power, Regula suddenly got a serious illness.
This serious illness is like a watershed. When he recovered, it was like a different person. This is a distortion of character and habit.
If you can't understand this change, you can use a popular bridge to compare it. It's like the popular crossing in novels now. An emperor suddenly became seriously ill and was dying. The dead have miraculously come back to life.
After coming back to life, the original loser became a monk genius, and the original weak chicken also became a sophisticated talent. Regula's adventure is just like the protagonist in the novel, except that he has changed from seemingly good to downright evil.
The example just mentioned is naturally impossible to appear in reality, but Rygula's temperament really changed after recovering from a serious illness.
What made him suddenly cruel, crazy, grotesque and dissolute, like a different person?
The madness flowing in blood was introduced into modern psychiatric research, and scientists got the answer. The cause of all this, but also from Carregula's illness.
It is speculated that Ragura's disease is temporal lobe epilepsy. This speculation is based on real evidence, not speculation. Scholars have studied Ka Regula's genealogy and found that Julius Caesar suffers from epilepsy, and Ka Regula's grandmother and sister also suffer from epilepsy. Regula himself must have a history of epilepsy.
This may also be related to Tiberius putting him under house arrest on an island for seven years. Because in ancient Rome, epilepsy was a shameful thing. Therefore, Regula must have epilepsy, and it is temporal lobe epilepsy, which will distort mental thinking.
Later, Regula's behavior also proved this speculation. Epilepsy distorted his spirit and thinking. He began to have delusions, and naturally he was the true god. And he often put forward some absurd schemes that the empire had to implement.
Of course, Regula's atrocities don't stop there. However, we only need to know that after a serious illness, he has begun to become mentally ill. As for his future killing behavior, it comes from the inexplicable death of his father. It's a long story in detail, so I won't elaborate on why Regula's personality is distorted here.
We just need to know that Ka Regula is actually a recessive psychopath. Relying on his father's glory, he got all the rights that the Roman emperor never easily got. After a temporal lobe epilepsy, his mental illness broke out completely, which finally created his name as the "most cruel ruler" in Rome.
His evil deeds have even reached the point where the ancient Romans were desperate to erase him from history. In the end, he also died of assassination. What a pity! After his death, his family was slaughtered. )