Caligula with Mary Beard

  • Rated 7.5 out of 10
  • Movie
  • 2013
  • 1h 0m
  • Documentary
  • History

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?

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Director
Hugo Macgregor
Starring
Mary Beard, Greg Woolf, Timothy Peter Wiseman, Catharine Edwards

Cast

  • Mary Beard

    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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