Messalina

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10.99
book_author_name: 
Honor Cargill-Martin
book_type: 
Paperback
publisher: 
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
published_date: 
14/03/2024
isbn: 
9781801102605
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Books > History > Historical periods > Classical history
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Honor Cargill-Martin|Paperback|Bloomsbury Publishing PLC|14/03/2024
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9781801102605
Book Description: 
This is the story of Messalina – third wife of Emperor Claudius and one of the most notorious women to have inhabited the Roman world.The image of the Empress Messalina as a 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 – of nightly visits to a brothel and a twenty-four-hour sex competition with a prostitute – have defined the empress's legacy, but her real story is much more complex.In Messalina, Honor Cargill-Martin reappraises one of the most slandered female figures of ancient history, and finds a woman who succeeded in asserting herself in the overwhelmingly male world of imperial Roman politics. Intelligent, passionate and ruthless when she needed to be, Messalina’s story encapsulates the cut-throat political manoeuvring and unimaginable luxury of the Julio-Claudian dynasty in its heyday.Cargill-Martin sets out not to 'salvage' Messalina's reputation, but to look at her life in the context of her time. Above all, she seeks to reclaim the humanity of a life story previously circumscribed by currents of high politics and patriarchy.

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