In “Messalina,” Honor Cargill-Martin looks at the limited evidence with empathy, arguing that a notorious empress was also a canny politician. By Timothy Farrington When you purchase an independently ...

Coming out of the opera Messalina on Satiurday night, November 20, all I could think to say were two words: Wow! And Whew! Messalina, a Venetian opera by Carlo Pallavicino, may be the wildest and ...

Messalina's sex life got Romans gossiping, but what they really feared was her lust for power. Sex symbolArtworks, such as the Eugene Brunet 1884 sculpture, often emphasize Messalina’s notoriety as a ...

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If the Roman historians are to be believed, Messalina (inter alia) “takes down one of the richest and most powerful men in Rome because she likes his garden; murders men who refuse to sleep with her; ...

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