Caligula with Mary Beard

Caligula with Mary Beard

60 mins | Documentary, History | July 29, 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?

Caligula with Mary Beard

60 mins | Documentary, History | July 29, 2013

Caligula with Mary Beard
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?
IMDb rating 6.9
Producers Lion Television
Original title Caligula with Mary Beard
Directors Hugo Macgregor
Writers Mary Beard

Cast

Mary Beard

as Self - Host

Greg Woolf

as Self - Historian

Timothy Peter Wiseman

as Self - Historian

Catharine Edwards

as Self - Historian

Henry Hurst

as Self - Archeologist