Caligula with Mary Beard

Name: Caligula with Mary Beard
Director: Hugo Macgregor
Genre: Documentary, History
Released: 2013-07-29
Duration: 60 min
Rating: 7.6
Cast: Mary Beard, Greg Woolf, Timothy Peter Wiseman, Catharine Edwards, Henry Hurst

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Caligula with Mary Beard

*7.6

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Lion Television

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2013-07-29

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?

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