Caligula with Mary Beard
29 July 2013| 60 min
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?
Genres
DocumentaryHistory
Cast
Mary Beard
Greg Woolf
Timothy Peter Wiseman
Catharine Edwards
Henry Hurst
