Caligula with Mary Beard (2013)
- HD 1080
- Runtime: 60m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: en
- Country: United Kingdom
- Director: Hugo Macgregor
- Stars: Mary Beard, Greg Woolf, Timothy Peter Wiseman, Catharine Edwards, Henry Hurst
- keywords: rome, italy, roman empire, ancient rome, ancient history, revisionist history, archeology, 1st century, caligula
- Production_studio: Lion Television
- providers: Amazon Prime Video, Acorn TV, Magellan TV, Amazon Prime Video with Ads
- The Caligula with Mary Beard is featured in the top rankings of 2013
- #48 in Top Documentary Movies of 2013
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?