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Caligula with Mary Beard

7.5/ 1020131h 0m

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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?

Directed by Hugo Macgregor

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The cast

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Mary Beard

Mary Beard

Self - Host

Greg Woolf

Self - Historian

Timothy Peter Wiseman

Self - Historian

Catharine Edwards

Self - Historian

Henry Hurst

Self - Archeologist