Messalina
Empress, Adulteress, Libertine: The Story of the Most Notorious Woman of the Roman World
Published on 6. June 2023
Book
Hardback
432 pages
978-1-63936-395-7 (ISBN)
Description
"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 manoeuvring and unimaginable luxury of the Julio-Claudian dynasty in its heyday."--Publisher.
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Language
English
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Width: 164 mm
Thickness: 37 mm
Weight
625 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-63936-395-7 (9781639363957)
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Person
Honor Cargill-Martin is an author, classicist, and art historian from London. She read Classical Archeology and Ancient History at Oxford, winning a scholarship and graduating with a first-class degree in 2019. She has masters degrees in Greek and Roman history and Italian Renaissance Art. She is currently studying for a doctorate focusing on political sex scandals in Ancient Rome at Christ Church College Oxford. She has published a number of children’s fiction titles. Her biography of Messalina is her first non-fiction title.