Messalina: Empress of Rome
The Ancients
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Messleena's Triumph
Messleena is portrayed in the sources as overly feminine. She's either too passionate, too sexual and these are the things that are presented as driving all of her actions. But when we actually look at the context of these actions it's very clear that she's making rational and sensible political decisions. Sometimes they're brutal and murderous but they're the decisions that the contacts were calling for.
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