Honor Cargill
1) Messalina: empress, adulteress, libertine : the story of the most notorious woman of the Roman world
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"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-throat political maneuvering...