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Caligula with Mary Beard

Jul 29, 2013 · 1h 0m
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Documentary
History

PLOT

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?

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CAST

Mary Beard
Self - Host
Greg Woolf
Self - Historian
Timothy Peter Wiseman
Self - Historian
Catharine Edwards
Self - Historian
Henry Hurst
Self - Archeologist
Directed by Hugo Macgregor

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Status
Released
Original language
EN
Budget
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Production
Lion Television
Country
GB

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