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521 The Empress Messalina (with Honor Cargill-Martin) | My Last Book with Robert Chandler

The History of Literature

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The Importance of Self Restraint in Politics

I think the idea is either you need to exercise self restraint, particularly if you're a man, or restraints need to be exercised upon you. And that we need a kind of Christian morality or a kind of strong patriarchal system in order to keep these potentially uncontrollable forces in check. I was looking at processes of rumor creation because there are so many kind of crazy sexual rumors about the G.D. Julian. The more that I looked into the actual historical sources about Messalina, the more that I felt like she was just criminally under study as a genuine force in the political and the cultural development of this period. She has a massive impact on the way that political is done. It

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