Messalina: Empress, Adulteress, Libertine: The Story of the Most Notorious Woman of the Roman World

The shocking and scandalous story of Messalina—the third wife of Emperor Claudius—one of the most controversial women to have inhabited the Roman world.

The lubricious image of the Empress Messalina as…

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