'The greatest history of Caeseral carnage ever written.' - Bizarre

'Divine Carnage gives an insight into the insane lives of Caligula, Commodus (the chap who didn't get on with Russell Crowe in Gladiator) and the transvestite Heligabalus: prostitutes gives hand-jobs in the amphitheatre, men sleep with their sisters, tigers eat slaves and finally, everybody kills each other. Great stuff.' - FHM

'Book of the Month: Worth it for the chapter on gladiators, covering the same period as the recent film, which looks like Teletubbies compared with the goring, impaling, inverted crucifixions and hallucinogens the real lot went through.' - Front

'An authoritative, highly readable book about Caligula.' - Loaded

Caligula: the most notorious of the Roman Emperors, married his own sister, installed a horse in the Senate, turned his palace into a brothel, tortured and killed innocent citizens on a whim, and committed countless acts of madness, cruelty and deviancy.

In Caligula: Divine Carnage, award-winning writers Stephen Barber and Jeremy Reed:

* document in full the atrocities of Caligula

* focus on other mad Emperors, such as Commodus (villain of the recent Hollywood blockbuster Gladiator), and Heliogabalus, the teenage ambisexual “sun-god”

* provide a history of the Roman arena, the depraved circus where animals, freaks and criminals were put to death by the thousand.

Caligula: Divine Carnage will appeal to historians, general readers and connoisseurs of visceral history.