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 byHugo Macgregor
- Status
- Released
- Runtime
- 1h 0m
- Language
- EN
- Released
- July 29, 2013
Featuring
Cast & crew
Mary Beard
Self - Host
Greg Woolf
Self - Historian
Timothy Peter Wiseman
Self - Historian
Catharine Edwards
Self - Historian
Henry Hurst
Self - Archeologist
- Directed by
- Hugo Macgregor
- Written by
- Mary Beard
- Produced by
- Caterina Turroni
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