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Caligula with Mary Beard (2013)

Caligula with Mary Beard (2013)

History Documentary
Release Date: 2013, July 29
Directors: Hugo Macgregor
Countries: United Kingdom
Production: Lion Television
Cast: Mary Beard, Greg Woolf, Timothy Peter Wiseman, Catharine Edwards, Henry Hurst

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?

Keywords:

archeology roman empire ancient rome rome, italy 1st century revisionist history caligula ancient history