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Messalina: Empress of Rome

The Ancients

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The Power of the Empress

Livia is an incredible proof of how much power you can accrue as the wife of the emperor in this period. And so I think Messleena takes elements that she's learned from figures like Livia and from kind of figures in the wider imperial family who've been powerful at certain points during Tiberius and Kliqla's reign. But I think in a lot of ways Messleena is kind of combining those elements and starting from scratch and creating her own image and her own roots through the role of empress.

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