Caligula with Mary Beard
7.6
2013
1h 0m
DocumentaryHistory
Overview
What is true and what is false in the hideous stories spread about the controversial figure of the Roman emperor Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (12-41), nicknamed Caligula? Professor Mary Beard explains what is accurate and what is mythical in the historical accounts that portray him as an unbalanced despot. Was he a sadistic tyrant, as Roman historians have told, or perhaps the truth about him was manipulated because of political interests?
Director
Hugo Macgregor
Top Cast
Mary Beard
Self - Host
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Greg Woolf
Self - Historian
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Timothy Peter Wiseman
Self - Historian
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Catharine Edwards
Self - Historian
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Henry Hurst
Self - Archeologist
