Caligula with Mary Beard
🎭 Genres:Documentary, History
⭐️ Actors:Mary Beard, Greg Woolf, Timothy Peter Wiseman, Catharine Edwards, Henry Hurst
🌍 Country:United Kingdom
📅 Year:2013
🎬 Director:Hugo Macgregor
📝 Description: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?
