Caligula with Mary Beard

Name: Caligula with Mary Beard
Cast: Mary Beard, Greg Woolf, Timothy Peter Wiseman, Catharine Edwards, Henry Hurst

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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?

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Cast & Crew

Director: Hugo MacgregorWriter: Mary BeardProducers: Caterina Turroni, Martin Davidson, Richard Bradley

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

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