Caligula with Mary Beard
IMDB:
7.6
Released
7/29/2013
Duration
1h 0m
Genre
Documentary, History
Country
United Kingdom
Cast
Mary Beard, Greg Woolf, Timothy Peter Wiseman
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?
Caligula with Mary Beard
IMDB:
7.6Released
7/29/2013
Genre
Documentary, History
Cast
Mary Beard, Greg Woolf, Timothy Peter Wiseman
Duration
1h 0m
Country
United Kingdom
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?
Cast
Self - Host
Mary Beard
Self - Historian
Greg Woolf
Self - Historian
Timothy Peter Wiseman
Self - Historian
Catharine Edwards
Self - Archeologist
