Released:
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?

Director:
Hugo Macgregor

Runtime:
1h 0min

Genre:
Documentary, History

• Cast:
• 
  Mary Beard
  as
  Self - Host
• 
  Greg Woolf
  as
  Self - Historian
• 
  Timothy Peter Wiseman
  as
  Self - Historian
• 
  Catharine Edwards
  as
  Self - Historian
• 
  Henry Hurst
  as
  Self - Archeologist