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Cargill, Honor.
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Messalina, Valeria, -48.
Empresses -- Rome -- Biography.
Rome -- History -- Claudius, 41-54.
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Cargill, Honor.
Messalina, Valeria, -48.
Empresses -- Rome -- Biography.
Rome -- History -- Claudius, 41-54.
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Messalina
:
empress
,
adulteress
,
libertine
: the
story
of the
most
notorious
woman
of the
Roman
world
/ Honor Cargill-Martin.
by
Cargill, Honor.
Pegasus Books, 2023.
Call #:
937.07092 M583c
Subjects
Messalina
, Valeria, -48.
Empresses -- Rome -- Biography.
Rome -- History -- Claudius, 41-54.
ISBN:
9781639363957 (hc)
Edition:
1st Pegasus Books cloth ed.
Description:
xxix, 402 p., 16 unnumbered p. of plates : ill. (chiefly col.), maps, genealogical tables ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 352-363) and index.
Summary:
"The
story
of
Messalina
, third wife of the emperor Claudius and one of the
most
notorious
women to have inhabited the
Roman
world
. The image of the
empress
Messalina
as a ruthless, 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-throat political maneuvering 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."--Publisher.
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