<b>This is the story of Messalina third wife of Emperor Claudius and one of the most notorious women to have inhabited the Roman world.</b> The scandalous image of the Empress Messalina as a ruthless and sexually insatiable schemer, derived from the work of Roman historians such as Tacitus and Suetonius, has taken deep root in the Western imagination. The stories they told about her included nightly visits to a brothel and a twenty-four-hour sex competition with a prostitute. Tales like these have defined the empress's legacy, but her real story is much more complex. In her new life of Messalina, the classicist Honor Cargill-Martin reappraises one of the most slandered and underestimated female figures of ancient history. Looking beyond the salacious anecdotes, she finds a woman battling to assert her position in the overwhelmingly male world of imperial Roman politics and succeeding. Intelligent, passionate, and ruthless when she needed to be, Messalina's story encapsulates the cut-th
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<b>This is the story of Messalina ¿ third wife of Emperor Claudius and one of the most notorious women to have inhabited the Roman world.</b>The scandalous image of the Empress Messalina as a ruthless and sexually insatiable schemer, derived...
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