521 The Empress Messalina (with Honor Cargill-Martin) | My Last Book with Robert Chandler
The History of Literature
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The Twisted Story of Messaelina
I think it's really interesting how this stuff is twisted. You wonder if people who were looking at her and who knew what was going on or the rumors that were starting from truth rather than pure extra grind propaganda. If she was having an affair that was just for love or because for physical attraction or something people would view that as reckless. Whereas with Messaelina, very kind of similar accusations are used as evidence of her utter kind of irrationality.
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