Caligula with Mary Beard
|Caligula with Mary Beard
Status: Released
Runtime: 60
Release Date: 29/07/2013
Origin Language: en
Origin Country: GB - US
Languages: English
Production: Lion Television
Countries: United Kingdom
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0 (0)
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?
