Caligula with Mary Beard (2013)

Caligula with Mary Beard (2013)

2013-07-29 United Kingdom 60 Min. PG-13
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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?

Cast

Mary Beard is Self - Host
Self - Host
Greg Woolf is Self - Historian
Self - Historian
Timothy Peter Wiseman is Self - Historian
Self - Historian
Catharine Edwards is Self - Historian
Self - Historian
Henry Hurst is Self - Archeologist
Self - Archeologist