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There she reclines on a as the lights of Rome burn in the background.

Susan Wood, "Messalina, wife of Claudius: propaganda successes and failures of his reign", Journal of Roman Archaeology, Volume 5, 1992, p.

Encyclopaedia Britannica suggests of his fictive approach that he was "free with scandalous gossip," and that "he used 'characteristic anecdote' without exhaustive inquiry into its authenticity.

Unfortunately, because the series is presented as a docudrama rather than a straight drama, many viewers have been misled to believe that everything depicted in it is historically true.

In modern times, that has led to exaggerated works which have been described as romps.

I eased myself past the bombastic bouncers who looked like they were born on a cabbage patch and was unleashed into this hedonistic hell pit.

And most of all, they could be the worst perverts the world has ever seen — at least according to ancient historians like Suetonius, Pliny, and Cassius Dio.

By emphasizing the importance of the Augustan bloodline, Caligula may have been trying to reinforce his own legitimacy as emperor.

Two Low Countries painters emphasised the behaviour of Messalina that led up to her end by picturing her wedding with Gaius Silius.

From this point of view, the accusations of sexual excess against Messalina that were made in the years that followed her fall were arguably a and the result of "politically motivated hostility".

Messalina, 1884 , Other artists show similar scenes of debauchery or, like the Italian A.

In the first, Messalina sits naked while a maid dresses her hair in preparation for taking up her role as the courtesan Lisisica; in the other she offers fourteen myrtle wreaths to following her triumph in exhausting as many fit young men in a sexual contest.