Caligula with Mary Beard
DocumentaryHistory
7.6/10
|GB
|en
|60 min
Release Date: 2013-07-29
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?
Production Companies
Lion Television
