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1) Messalina: Empress, Adulteress, Libertine: the Story of the Most Notorious Woman of the Roman World
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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Description
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 a ruthless, predatory, and sexually insatiable schemer—derived from the work of male historians such as Tacitus and Suetonius—has taken deep root in the Western imagination.
Here, the classicist Honor Cargill-Martin...
The lubricious image of the Empress Messalina as a ruthless, predatory, and sexually insatiable schemer—derived from the work of male historians such as Tacitus and Suetonius—has taken deep root in the Western imagination.
Here, the classicist Honor Cargill-Martin...
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
From the critically acclaimed author of the New York Times bestseller The Confessions of Max Tivoli comes The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells, a rapturously romantic story of a woman who finds herself transported to the “other lives” she might have lived.
After the death of her beloved twin brother and the abandonment of her long-time lover, Greta Wells undergoes electroshock therapy. Over the course of the
...Author
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
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Description
The latest mistress of Cliveden traces its history through the stories of its most noteworthy women, including an aristocrat-turned-adulteress, a confidante of Queen Victoria, a German royal who nearly became the Queen of England, and the first female member of Parliament.
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