Catharine Edwards
Birthday: Born in in
Deathday: Alive
TV Credits
Mothers, Murderers and Mistresses: Empresses of Ancient Rome
Character: Self - Presenter
Professor Catharine Edwards explores the dramatic story of the women who tasted power in the Roman Empire....
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Caligula with Mary Beard
Character: Self - Historian
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?...