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Messalina: The Life and Times of Rome’s Most Scandalous Empress
Honor Cargill-Martin
Messalina: The Life and Times of Rome’s Most Scandalous Empress
Honor Cargill-Martin
This is the story of Messalina â 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 â of nightly visits to a brothel and a twenty-four-hour sex competition with a prostitute â 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, Messalinaâs 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.
352 pages
Media | Książki Paperback Book (Książka z miękką okładką i klejonym grzbietem) |
Wydane | 14 marca 2024 |
ISBN13 | 9781801102605 |
Wydawcy | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
Strony | 432 |
Wymiary | 198 × 129 × 30 mm · 346 g |
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