Messalina: Empress of Rome
The Ancients
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The Importance of the Senate in Messian's Life
The Senate still play a significant role in the story of Messalina particularly near her end. She needs to have strong allies in the Senate because she needs them essentially to enforce and enact her plans when she wants to appease someone of adultery or conspiracy. The anxiety as you were saying about the fact that the Senate are losing their power is really encapsulated in this fear that kind of women are co-opting that power and using it for sort of nefarious ends basically. Is there that very much a conservative lowest C element in the Senate? Yeah, yeah definitely. Well therefore you mentioned you hinted at there is this worry that she's becoming a loose canon. So take it away on her.
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