Messalina

Author : Honor Cargill-Martin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1639363963
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Messalina written by Honor Cargill-Martin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-06-06 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 puts this traditional narrative of Messalina to the test. She looks first at Messalina's life as it is recounted in the primary sources, before using material and circumstantial evidence to reconstruct each aspect of Messalina's character: politician, wife, adulteress, and prostitute. Finally, she explores how posterity has memorialized Messalina, whether as artist's muse, epitome of depraved pagan womanhood, or as libertine icon portrayed in literature and film. Cargill-Martin sets out not to entirely rewrite Messalina's history, or to salvage her reputation, but to look at her life in the context of her time and to reclaim the humanity of a life story previously defined by currents of high politics and patriarchy.

Author : Vivian Crockett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Messalina written by Vivian Crockett and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Supplementary matter: Selections from Tacitus, Juvenal (Sixth satire) and Merivale.

Author : Algernon Sydney Logan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Messalina written by Algernon Sydney Logan and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lisa Hopkins
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9780754662631
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cultural Uses of the Caesars on the English Renaissance Stage written by Lisa Hopkins and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caesarian power was a crucial context in the Renaissance, as rulers in Europe, Russia and Turkey all sought to appropriate Caesarian imagery and authority, but it has been surprisingly little explored in scholarship. Analyzing plays by Shakespeare as well as other early modern dramatists, Lisa Hopkins explores the way in which the stories of the Caesars can be used to figure the stories of English rulers on the Renaissance stage.

Author : HONOR. CARGILL-MARTIN
Publisher : Bloomsbury UK
ISBN 13 : 9781801102605
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Messalina written by HONOR. CARGILL-MARTIN and published by Bloomsbury UK. This book was released on 2024-03-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Peter Vronsky
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780425213902
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Female Serial Killers written by Peter Vronsky and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-08-07 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fascinating book, Peter Vronsky exposes and investigates the phenomenon of women who kill—and the political, economic, social and sexual implications buried with each victim. How many of us are even remotely prepared to imagine our mothers, daughters, sisters or grandmothers as fiendish killers? For centuries we have been conditioned to think of serial murderers and psychopathic predators as men—with women registering low on our paranoia radar. Perhaps that’s why so many trusting husbands, lovers, family friends, and children have fallen prey to “the female monster.” From history’s earliest recorded cases of homicidal females to Irma Grese, the Nazi Beast of Belsen, from Britain’s notorious child-slayer Myra Hindley to ‘Honeymoon Killer’ Martha Beck to the sensational cult of Aileen Wournos—the first female serial killer-as-celebrity—to cult killers, homicidal missionaries, and our pop-culture fascination with the sexy femme fatale, Vronsky not only challenges our ordinary standards of good and evil but also defies our basic accepted perceptions of gender role and identity. INCLUDES PHOTOGRAPHS

Author : Heinrich Stadelmann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Messalina written by Heinrich Stadelmann and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Maurice Magre
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Messalina, Roman Temptress written by Maurice Magre and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jason Martinko
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0557390184
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Jason Martinko Revue: the Complete Lyrics written by Jason Martinko and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert Graves
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Claudius the God and His Wife Messalina written by Robert Graves and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: