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Explanation: The Roman Emperor Caligula once ordered the Roman legionaries to ‘attack’ the sea, stabbing the tides and collecting seashells as booty. This is sometimes considered proof of his insanity, but others suggest it may have been meant as a humiliation for the legionaries for one reason or another.
Also, I think that bust is actually of Augustus, but we’ll let that slide.
This is sometimes considered proof of his insanity, but others suggest it may have been meant as a humiliation for the legionaries for one reason or another.
I always thought it was one of those “it never happened, but historians hated him and made up some facts to show everyone how dumb and stupid he was”.
The ‘war against the sea’ factoid isn’t even new: greek historians said the same about Xerxes (iirc he ordered his soldiers to flog the Hellespont), and that one was almost certainly fake as well.
