Caligula with Mary Beard

Caligula with Mary Beard

Released on
Documentary, History
Runtime
60 mins
(10 votes)

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
  • Greg Woolf
  • Timothy Peter Wiseman
  • Catharine Edwards
  • Henry Hurst

Director

  • Hugo Macgregor

Producers

  • Caterina Turroni

Screenwriter

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