521 The Empress Messalina (with Honor Cargill-Martin) | My Last Book with Robert Chandler
The History of Literature
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Cassis and the Imperial Empire
It's a huge question and each of the historians that are our main sources have a slightly different group of agenda that they are pursuing. Cassis, I think, is probably the most interesting one. He has this incredibly kind of personally conflicted relationship with the idea of imperial power. But he also feels quite strongly on a personal level that imperial power is essentially a very corrupt system of government.
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