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Caligula with Mary Beard

Caligula with Mary Beard

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jul 29, 2013

Runtime

1h 0m

Genres

Documentary, History

User Score

76%

Original Title

Caligula with Mary Beard

Production Companies

Lion Television

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?