What nickname links an entertainer who has the real name Victoria Hesketh and the Roman emperor Caligula?
Little Boots with Greg Kurstin, with whom she had previously worked with Dead Disco, Hesketh started production on her debut album "Hands". In early 2008 she began using the stage name Little Boots, which came from a nickname given to her by a friend, a reference to her unusually small feet. She shares her nickname with the ancient Roman emperor Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, who was better known by his nickname Caligula (Latin for "Little Boot"). After appearing on several shows including "Later... with Jools Holland" and "Last Call with Carson Daly", Hesketh entered production on her debut album "Hands". The album
Caligula Caligula Caligula (; Latin: "Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus"; 31 August 12 – 24 January 41 AD) was Roman emperor from AD 37 to AD 41. The son of the popular Roman general Germanicus and Augustus' granddaughter Agrippina the Elder, Caligula was born into the first ruling family of the Roman Empire, conventionally known as the Julio-Claudian dynasty. Germanicus' uncle and adoptive father, Tiberius, succeeded Augustus as emperor of Rome in AD 14. Although he was born Gaius Caesar, after Julius Caesar, he acquired the nickname "Caligula" (meaning "little soldier's boot", the diminutive form of "caliga") from his father's soldiers