Ancients Behaving Badly

Season

2009

Canada

7

TV-PG

This documentary explores some of the psychological behaviors regarding the world's most infamous celebrities in the ancient world, while utilizing modern scientific techniques to explain their actions.

Episode List

S1 • E1

Caligula

Ordinary people loved Caligula because he provided them entertainment, gladiatorial battles, horse races, and public executions. However, the young emperor also had a dark side.

S1 • E2

Attila the Hun

A marauding barbarian with a reputation as one of history's monsters, even today Attila's name is a synonym for savagery.

S1 • E3

Julius Caesar

The ruler whose ego was as big as his empire declares himself dictator of Rome for life--turning his allies to enemies in the process.

S1 • E4

Alexander the Great

The king of Macedonia considered himself a god; his admirers called him a military genius; his enemies considered him the devil. He used weapons of mass destruction of his day to defeat his enemies. What drove his quest for world domination and led him to massacre tens of thousands, including women and children and members of his own family?

S1 • E5

Nero

Emperor Nero ruled a mighty empire, but he preferred to making music, acting and writing poems. The paranoid Nero felt no mercy on those who tried to keep him off the stage.

S1 • E6

Hannibal

The story and psychological analysis of Carthaginian General Hannibal.

S1 • E7

Genghis Khan

This Mongol destroyer set in motion the conquest of a quarter of the world's population with a body count in the millions.

S1 • E8

Cleopatra

The infamous Queen of Egypt, known for her legendary powers of seduction, would stop at nothing, even murdering her entire family, to get her own way. Driven by power and ambition, her life was dominated by a heady cocktail of sex and murder.