Described as insane by both Philo and Suetonius and followed by Claudius, for 10 points, what third emperor of Rome who ruled from 37 to 41 AD?
He ordered the construction of two massive ships on Lake Nemi, whose wrecks were retrieved under Mussolini's orders. Taking over from Juba II's son Ptolemy, he formally made Mauretania into a Roman province, and he also had the tetrarch Herod Antipas put to death. His Praetorian guard Cassius Chaerea led the conspiracy to assassinate him just three years after his execution of Macro, the prefect whose support guaranteed his succession of Tiberius. Described as insane by both Philo and Suetonius and followed by Claudius, for 10 points, what third emperor of Rome who ruled from 37 to 41 AD?
He ordered the construction of two massive ships on Lake Nemi, whose wrecks were retrieved under Mussolini's orders.
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