Caligula with Mary Beard
DocumentaryHistory
★ 7.6·2013·1h 0m
What is true and what is false in the hideous stories spread about the controversial figure of the Roman emperor Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanic...
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Mary Beard
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Greg Woolf
Self - Historian
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Timothy Peter Wiseman
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Catharine Edwards
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Henry Hurst
Self - Archeologist
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Hugo Macgregor
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?