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Caligula with Mary Beard

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Jul 29, 2013
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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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    • Cast

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    Mary Beard
    Self - Host
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    Greg Woolf
    Self - Historian
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    Timothy Peter Wiseman
    Self - Historian
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    Catharine Edwards
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    Henry Hurst
    Self - Archeologist

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