Comments by "Faramund" (@faramund9865) on "Caligula – Rome’s Mad Emperor" video.

  1. Given the fact you mention the headaches. Permanent suffering, illness, really can bring the worst out in people. I personally know because I too suffer from such endless little pains. You do anything you can to cope with it, often in the most primal formes. And when there's people around me I get agitated very quickly and either leave the company of those people or start venting. Now I have no power, but now imagine someone with boundless power in such a situation.
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  2. Well the thing about what you said about the sources is that, right now we have plenty of sources available from Otto von Bismarcks lifetime, so we can actually write a pretty good account of his life. People are always so sceptical of sources from later eras, but they take or even just straight up copy older sources. Of course some would write it the way they interpreted it, so it's not always 1-1 the same sources. And it's good to remember that.
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