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Flying High
Perdita Cargill, Honor Cargill; Illustrated by Katie Saunders
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R200
Discovery Miles 2 000
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Halloween Ball (Paperback)
Perdita Cargill, Honor Cargill; Illustrated by Katie Saunders
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R184
R158
Discovery Miles 1 580
Save R26 (14%)
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Secret Spells
Perdita Cargill, Honor Cargill; Illustrated by Katie Saunders
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R200
Discovery Miles 2 000
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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This is the story of Messalina – third wife of Emperor Claudius
and one of the most notorious women to have inhabited the Roman
world. The scandalous image of the Empress Messalina as a ruthless
and sexually insatiable schemer, derived from the work of Roman
historians such as Tacitus and Suetonius, has taken deep root in
the Western imagination. The stories they told about her included
nightly visits to a brothel and a twenty-four-hour sex competition
with a prostitute. Tales like these have defined the empress's
legacy, but her real story is much more complex. In her new life of
Messalina, the classicist Honor Cargill-Martin reappraises one of
the most slandered and underestimated female figures of ancient
history. Looking beyond the salacious anecdotes, she finds a woman
battling to assert her position in the overwhelmingly male world of
imperial Roman politics – and succeeding. Intelligent,
passionate, and ruthless when she needed to be, Messalina's story
encapsulates the cut-throat political manoeuvring and unimaginable
luxury of the Julio-Claudian dynasty in its heyday. Cargill-Martin
sets out not to 'salvage' Messalina's reputation, but to look 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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