Caligula with Mary Beard

6.9

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1h 0mDocumentary 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?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 accura... Read more

Starring Mary Beard, Greg Woolf, Timothy Peter Wiseman, Catharine Edwards, Henry Hurst

Watch "Caligula with Mary Beard" on Magellan released in 2013. It's a documentary and history movie, and has a rating of 6.9 out of 10 from Imdb which is usually fine for this kind of movie.