Caligula with Mary Beard
MovieTitle | Caligula with Mary Beard |
User score | 7.6 |
Release date | Jul 29, 2013 |
Genre | Documentary, History |
Director | Hugo Macgregor |
Production country | United Kingdom |
Production companies | Lion Television |
Run time | 60 min. |
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?