Caligula with Mary Beard

2013· 60 min★ 6.9· Documentary, History

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?

Cast: Mary Beard, Greg Woolf, Timothy Peter Wiseman

Director: Hugo Macgregor