Messalina: Empress of Rome
The Ancients
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The Politics of Messalina
The sources say that the people of Rome are laughing at Claudius essentially and blaming Messalina for that. And how does this affect Messalina's popularity? First of all within the court of Claudius itself and then I guess within Rome itself? Well we really can't say, I think it's something we have to take with a pinch of salt. We don't know whether they're founded or unfounded but the implication certainly is that these are either kind of accusations that she has created or trumped up in order to get rid of political enemies.
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