Caligula with Mary Beard

60 mins
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?

Mary Beard

Self - Host

Greg Woolf

Self - Historian

Timothy Peter Wiseman

Self - Historian

Catharine Edwards

Self - Historian

Henry Hurst

Self - Archeologist

Catherine Preece

Online Editor

Amy Kemp

Production Coordinator

Shahana Meer

Production Director

Virginia Taroni

Researcher

Raphael Cormack

Researcher

Richard Bradley

Executive Producer

Martin Davidson

Executive Producer

Brendan Easton

Director of Photography

Douglas Hartington

Director of Photography

Marco Rossi

Director of Photography

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