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Messalina
Author | : Honor Cargill-Martin |
Publsiher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 2023-06-06 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781639363964 |
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The shocking and scandalous story of Messalina—the third wife of Emperor Claudius—one of the most controversial women to have inhabited the Roman world. The lubricious image of the Empress Messalina as a ruthless, predatory, and sexually insatiable schemer—derived from the work of male historians such as Tacitus and Suetonius—has taken deep root in the Western imagination. Here, the classicist Honor Cargill-Martin puts this traditional narrative of Messalina to the test. She looks first at Messalina's life as it is recounted in the primary sources, before using material and circumstantial evidence to reconstruct each aspect of Messalina's character: politician, wife, adulteress, and prostitute. Finally, she explores how posterity has memorialized Messalina, whether as artist's muse, epitome of depraved pagan womanhood, or as libertine icon portrayed in literature and film. Cargill-Martin sets out not to entirely rewrite Messalina's history, or to salvage her reputation, but to look at her life in the context of her time and to reclaim the humanity of a life story previously defined by currents of high politics and patriarchy.
The Cultural Uses of the Caesars on the English Renaissance Stage
Author | : Lisa Hopkins |
Publsiher | : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0754662632 |
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Caesarian power was a crucial context in the Renaissance, as rulers in Europe, Russia and Turkey all sought to appropriate Caesarian imagery and authority, but it has been surprisingly little explored in scholarship. Analyzing plays by Shakespeare as well as other early modern dramatists, Lisa Hopkins explores the way in which the stories of the Caesars can be used to figure the stories of English rulers on the Renaissance stage.
Female Serial Killers
Author | : Peter Vronsky |
Publsiher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 508 |
Release | : 2007-08-07 |
Genre | : True Crime |
ISBN | : 0425213900 |
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In this fascinating book, Peter Vronsky exposes and investigates the phenomenon of women who kill—and the political, economic, social and sexual implications buried with each victim. How many of us are even remotely prepared to imagine our mothers, daughters, sisters or grandmothers as fiendish killers? For centuries we have been conditioned to think of serial murderers and psychopathic predators as men—with women registering low on our paranoia radar. Perhaps that’s why so many trusting husbands, lovers, family friends, and children have fallen prey to “the female monster.” From history’s earliest recorded cases of homicidal females to Irma Grese, the Nazi Beast of Belsen, from Britain’s notorious child-slayer Myra Hindley to ‘Honeymoon Killer’ Martha Beck to the sensational cult of Aileen Wournos—the first female serial killer-as-celebrity—to cult killers, homicidal missionaries, and our pop-culture fascination with the sexy femme fatale, Vronsky not only challenges our ordinary standards of good and evil but also defies our basic accepted perceptions of gender role and identity. INCLUDES PHOTOGRAPHS
The Jason Martinko Revue the Complete Lyrics
Author | : Jason Martinko |
Publsiher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2024 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 9780557390182 |
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Messalina Roman Temptress
Author | : Maurice Magre |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 1929 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : WISC:89104420393 |
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