• Jul 29, 2013
  • 60 min
  • Full-HD

Caligula with Mary Beard (2013)

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?

Category
Country
United Kingdom
Companies
Lion Television

Mary Beard

Self - Host

Greg Woolf

Self - Historian

Timothy Peter Wiseman

Self - Historian

Catharine Edwards

Self - Historian

Henry Hurst

Self - Archeologist

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