In 38, Antiochus received his paternal dominion from Antonia's grandson, the Roman emperor Caligula. In addition, the emperor enlarged Antiochus' territory with a part of Cilicia bordering on the seacoast. Caligula also gave him the whole amount of the revenues of Commagene during the twenty years that it had been a Roman province.Cassius Dio, lix. 8Suetonius, Caligula, 16. The reasons for providing a client king with such vast resources remain unclear; it was perhaps a stroke of Caligula's well-attested eccentricity. Antiochus was on most intimate terms with Caligula, and he and King Agrippa I are spoken of as the instructors of the emperor in the art of tyranny.Cassius Dio, lix. 24. This friendship, however, did not last very long, for he was subsequently deposed by Caligula.
In 38, Antiochus received his paternal dominion from Antonia's grandson the Roman emperor Caligula. In addition the emperor enlarged Antiochus' territory with a part of Cilicia bordering on the seacoast. Caligula also gave him the whole amount of the revenues of Commagene during the twenty years that it had been a Roman province.Cassius Dio, lix. 8Suetonius, Caligula, 16. The reasons for providing a client king with such vast resources remain unclear; it was perhaps a stroke of Caligula's well-attested eccentricity. Antiochus was on most intimate terms with Caligula, and he and King Agrippa I are spoken of as the instructors of the emperor in the art of tyranny.Cassius Dio, lix. 24. This friendship, however, did not last very long, for he was subsequently deposed by Caligula.