His horse was called 'Incitatus' and most of the stories about the horse aren't true, either. The story was that he planned to make him a Consul, a myth that was promoted again in I, Claudius.
There's no evidence for it other than rumours and it's likely that Caligula was just being rude about the senate by joking that his horse could do their job.
He did a lot of weird stuff, but the main biographers of his, Suetonius and Cassius Dio, are both writing a very long time after his death and trying to paint some of the Julio-Claudians in a bad light. So you have to take these stories with a pinch of salt.
So you're saying "Little Boots" never did the weird madman stuff people said he did, like appoint his favorite horse to the Senate?
His horse was called 'Incitatus' and most of the stories about the horse aren't true, either. The story was that he planned to make him a Consul, a myth that was promoted again in I, Claudius.
There's no evidence for it other than rumours and it's likely that Caligula was just being rude about the senate by joking that his horse could do their job.
He did a lot of weird stuff, but the main biographers of his, Suetonius and Cassius Dio, are both writing a very long time after his death and trying to paint some of the Julio-Claudians in a bad light. So you have to take these stories with a pinch of salt.