Film·2013·1h

Caligula with Mary Beard

DocumentaryHistory

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?

Directed by Hugo Macgregor

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5 credited

Mary Beard
Mary BeardSelf - Host
Greg Woolf
Greg WoolfSelf - Historian
Timothy Peter Wiseman
Timothy Peter WisemanSelf - Historian
Catharine Edwards
Catharine EdwardsSelf - Historian
Henry Hurst
Henry HurstSelf - Archeologist

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