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 ...

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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Killer, nymphomaniac, empress of Rome – or a victim of lying men? Messalina became a byword for deranged sexuality – but the young classicist Honor Cargill-Martin has other ideas Gift this article ...

While fighting in Britain, Roman forces commanded by Caligula capture the noble warrior, Glaucus. Seeing in him gladiator material, Caligula takes Glaucus back to Rome along with other hostages ...

Cargill-Martin’s Messalina is a very different woman to the figure portrayed by the male chroniclers writing after her fall. After repeated ruptures of civil war, Rome was sliding from the republican ...

After the tyrannical Emperor Caligula was murdered by his Praetorian Guards, Rome needs a new emperor. The Senators and the Praetorian Guards are undecided who the next emperor should be but finally ...