

July 29, 2013
1h 0m
EN
Hugo Macgregor
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


Mary Beard
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Henry Hurst
Self - Archeologist

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