Caligula with Mary Beard (2013)

07/29/2013 (GB) • 1h

Documentary, History

Overview

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?

Top Billed Cast

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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Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

-

Revenue

-

Keywords

rome, italy

roman empire

ancient rome

ancient history

revisionist history

archeology

1st century

caligula

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