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Messalina: Empress, Adulteress, Libertine: The Story of the Most Notorious Woman of the Roman World:
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It's incredibly hard to write modern biographies of ancient women. Not least because most ancient historians didn't care that much about women as individuals; they only mattered when they intersected with men (... not too differen" Read more of this review » |
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