Caligula with Mary Beard (2013)

Caligula with Mary Beard

2013

Documentary History

Synopsis

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?

Credits

Director

Hugo Macgregor

Cast

Catharine Edwards as Self - Historian

Greg Woolf as Self - Historian

Henry Hurst as Self - Archeologist

Mary Beard as Self - Host

Timothy Peter Wiseman as Self - Historian

Crew

Catherine Preece (Colorist)

Brendan Easton (Director of Photography)