Caligula with Mary Beard (movie)
- User score: 7.6
- Production country: United Kingdom
- Producer: Hugo Macgregor
- Production companies: Lion Television
- Genre: Documentary, History
- Release date: 7/29/2013
- Run time: 60 min.
Movie description
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?
