Yet today, the only reference you will find to her in pop culture is as a minor character in the hack-and-slash video game Dante’s Inferno (where she is called “the greediest woman in all of Rome”).

Caligula was adored by the people of Rome, too, in part because of their love for Germanicus but also out of sympathy for the ...

The Persian empire pioneered women's rights. Other contemporary cultures made jokes about it and considered Persians unmanly.