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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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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Hugo Macgregor · Director
Mary Beard · Writer
Marco Rossi · Cinematographer
Brendan Easton · Cinematographer
Guy Scutter · Editor
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