Movie Description
Caligula with Mary Beard
(2013)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?
Featured Crew
- Director : Hugo Macgregor
- Producer : Caterina Turroni
- Writer : Mary Beard
- Editor : Guy Scutter
- Cast : Mary Beard,Greg Woolf,Timothy Peter Wiseman,Catharine Edwards,Henry Hurst
Cast
Self - Host
Self - Historian
Self - Historian
Self - Historian
Self - Archeologist
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Original TitleCaligula with Mary Beard
Status Released
Release Information
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2013-07-29
Original LanguageEnglish
Runtime 01h 00m
Homepagehttps://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b037w0qh
Production CompaniesLion Television
Genres
- Documentary
- History
