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?
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- Mary BeardSelf - Host
- Greg WoolfSelf - Historian
- Timothy Peter WisemanSelf - Historian
- Catharine EdwardsSelf - Historian
- Henry HurstSelf - Archeologist
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- Hugo MacgregorDirector
- Mary BeardWriter
- Brendan EastonDirector of Photography
- Douglas HartingtonDirector of Photography
- Marco RossiDirector of Photography
- Guy ScutterEditor
- Caterina TurroniProducer
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