caligula Palace has several magnificent inner courtyards. One of them was turned into a garden, with birds chirping on the branches and peacocks strolling on the path covered with sea sand.
The palace is full of priceless objects, golden statues and exquisite pictures of great ancient Greek artists, which are amazing. During festivals, tables with gorgeous tablecloths are placed in the banquet hall. Servants wash their hands and feet with golden pots, wipe their bodies with spices, and dress them with fresh rose crowns. Then tell them which couch to sit on.
Enter the wide vestibule through the main entrance of the palace. There are two rows of guards lined up from the vestibule to the dining room, and the invited guests walk from them to the dining room. Among the guests, young Roman boys appreciate their beautiful armor, elderly soldiers appreciate their military posture, and girls appreciate their manly appearance.
However, caligula set up guards not for viewing, but to increase deterrence. The emperor suspected that there were countless enemies hidden behind flattering smiles, so he thought they should be scared.
He himself stood in the middle of the statue of Romulus, the founder of Rome, and looked at the guests from the head of the statue. It is said that caligula sometimes tied Alexander the Great's armor to his purple triumph robe. The edge of the armor was covered with small lion heads, and in the middle of the armor was a gold piece with Athena's head.
guests enter the restaurant through the vestibule. The floor of the restaurant is paved with colored marble and the walls are inlaid with mosaics. In a restaurant, there are usually five tables in a row, with beds next to them. The middle table and bed are for the emperor.
along the wall of the dining room is a row of granite pillars, and there are caves in the wall opposite the pillars. In the caves, guards stand to monitor the words and deeds of the guests.
There are all kinds of delicious food on the table in the banquet hall: fried shrimp, oysters, pomegranate and Syrian plums with good color and fragrance. The favorite stuffing of the Romans is foie gras, stuffed with red stork tongue, stuffed with bird's crown, brains of pheasants and peacocks, and sperm glands of sea eel. All these delicious dishes are just appetizers, aiming at arousing the appetite of the guests.
The writer E. Sanin described such a scene in his work "Guests from Caesarea":
At a banquet, falcon, a member of the Senate, got a dish specially cooked for him with Haiban. Caligula had just executed falcon's only son the day before ... only because of his son's affectation and good self-esteem. Caligula ordered falcon to be present when his son was executed. Falcon bravely endured all this, and caligula decided to humiliate him at the banquet. No, he doesn't want to poison the senator, which is simply too boring for him ...
-do you know why you are allowed to eat these sea eels? -card Rygula asked falcon with obvious sarcastic tone.
-this should be a fish!
-this fish,-caligula said, enjoying himself word for word. -yesterday morning also called Publi falcon! You ate your own son! The emperor burst out laughing and shouted the last few words: Yesterday, after the execution, I ordered someone to cut him into small pieces to feed the sea eels, and then my chef made a special dish for you with these sea eels!
Emperor Ka Rygula's palace built on Palatine is magnificent. For example, the Goddess of Nature Hall is the largest round room in the palace. In the center of the house is a pool, in which is placed a complete set of marble sculptures-Neri, the sea god, and his daughters around him-Nereid, the goddess of the sea. Both Poseidon and his daughters' marble hands are squeezing the big shells, causing fountains to gush out from them. There is a big bed beside the big table next to the pool. The bed is full of purple pillows: Ka Rygula likes lying on this bed very much.
equally royal, magnificent and magnificent is the Ten Muses Hall. Along the wall stand statues of ten muses-they are the gods of music, dance, poetry and other science and art.
In the Dabao chair deep in the hall, caligula sat down. A carpet was laid straight in front of the throne, under which the conspirators hid knives.