Caligula with Mary Beard (2013)
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?
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