Movie

Caligula with Mary Beard

★ 7.5/10 · 11 votes 2013 1h 0m Released

DocumentaryHistory

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 Self - Host G Greg Woolf Self - Historian T Timothy Peter Wiseman Self - Historian C Catharine Edwards Self - Historian H Henry Hurst Self - Archeologist