Messalina: The Life and Times of Rome’s Most Scandalous Empress
Autor Honor Cargill-Martinen Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 mar 2024
According to the Roman historians Tacitus and Suetonius, the Empress Messalina was a sexually insatiable schemer. The tales they told about her - including a twenty-four-hour sex competition with a prostitute - have taken deep root in the Western imagination, but Messalina's real story is much more complex.
In her reappraisal of one of the most slandered female figures of ancient history, Honor Cargill-Martin finds an intelligent, passionate and ruthless woman who succeeded in asserting herself in the overwhelmingly male world of imperial Roman politics. Rather than setting out to 'salvage' Messalina's reputation, she looks at her life in the context of her time. Above all, she seeks to reclaim the humanity of a life story previously circumscribed by currents of high politics and patriarchy.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781801102605
ISBN-10: 1801102600
Pagini: 432
Ilustrații: 2x8 colour plate sections
Dimensiuni: 128 x 198 x 34 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Apollo
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1801102600
Pagini: 432
Ilustrații: 2x8 colour plate sections
Dimensiuni: 128 x 198 x 34 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Apollo
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Recenzii
Messalina is more than just a corrective biography of a misunderstood woman. It is a captivating journey into the wild world of imperial Rome and the most accomplished historical début I have read in years.
Honor Cargill-Martin writes Messalina's story with a wonderful passion and precision, in a book that reads like a thriller while delivering a nuanced examination of one woman and her many depictions.
Brisk, fun and fascinating, this delicious début is the perfect marriage of scholarship and wit.
For all the tales of sexual jealousy, vicious retribution and (occasionally) genuine love, this is also a serious and substantial account of the political machinations of the Roman imperial court in the first half of the first century ad, from a very considerable scholar. It left me longing for the surely-inevitable Netflix series.
A credible new narrative of Messalina's life... an impressive feat... [a] scholarly and engaging account
This book is a lesson in ancient Rome, but more interesting is what it says about misogyny, patriarchy, and how women get written in or out of history.
Erudite and entertaining
Guides us deftly through the warren of high politics and the famously confusing Julio-Claudian family tree
Engrossing, thought-provoking... a wide-ranging and powerful work
Honor Cargill-Martin writes Messalina's story with a wonderful passion and precision, in a book that reads like a thriller while delivering a nuanced examination of one woman and her many depictions.
Brisk, fun and fascinating, this delicious début is the perfect marriage of scholarship and wit.
For all the tales of sexual jealousy, vicious retribution and (occasionally) genuine love, this is also a serious and substantial account of the political machinations of the Roman imperial court in the first half of the first century ad, from a very considerable scholar. It left me longing for the surely-inevitable Netflix series.
A credible new narrative of Messalina's life... an impressive feat... [a] scholarly and engaging account
This book is a lesson in ancient Rome, but more interesting is what it says about misogyny, patriarchy, and how women get written in or out of history.
Erudite and entertaining
Guides us deftly through the warren of high politics and the famously confusing Julio-Claudian family tree
Engrossing, thought-provoking... a wide-ranging and powerful work
Notă biografică
Honor Cargill-Martin is an author, classicist, and art historian from London. She read Classical Archeology and Ancient History at Oxford, winning a scholarship and graduating with a first-class degree in 2019. She has masters degrees in Greek and Roman history and Italian Renaissance Art. She is currently studying for a doctorate focusing on political sex scandals in Ancient Rome at Christ Church College Oxford. She has published a number of children’s fiction titles. Her biography of Messalina is her first non-fiction title.