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Messalina: Debauchery, Slander and Intrigue in Imperial Rome

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Messalina: Debauchery, Slander and Intrigue in Imperial Rome
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The mythologization inherent in all ancient history has been especially unfair to women, according to anticologist Honor Cargill-Martin. From the time of Tacitus and Suetonius, who described the Emperor's third wife Claudius as an insatiable lecher, possessed of the lowest passions, Messalina's name became a household name. Scholars, mostly men, have long ignored her figure as an object of serious study, dismissing the documentary evidence of her life as untrustworthy, and of herself as a disinterested libertine.

The portrait of Messalina by Cargill-Martin offers a new and sometimes unexpected look at her actions and motives. With all the emotionality and fascinating narrative, this is the work of an erudite scientist in order to clarify the true history of the Empress and ultimately better understand the essence of the era.
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