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Messalina: The most Notorious Woman of the Roman Empire

Intelligence Squared

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The Power of Masleena

The last empress who lasted any real length of time at the top was Livia. Masleena comes into this role in some ways with a very clean slate. She's much younger than Livia was. And so she's forced to really create the image of what it means to be empress and new in some ways. Her statues really emphasize her youth, her beauty, her fertility. We also see it in terms of the ways in which she exerts her power.

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