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Tango01  | 28 Jul 2025 4:53 p.m. PST |
…After a Roman Cancellation
"Towards the end of 48 CE a workman carried his tools down into a tomb on the outskirts of Rome. Among the rows of niches, he found the urn holding the ashes of Marcus Valerius Antiochus. He had been a hairdresser and the freedman of the empress Valeria Messalina – a fact he had been proud enough of to record on his tombstone. The workman took out his tools; his job that day was to chisel off the empress's name.
Messalina had been killed that autumn, in the midst of a scandal that had rocked Rome. She'd been accused of bigamously marrying one of her lovers and plotting to oust her husband, the emperor Claudius, from the throne. The real reason for Messalina's fall probably lay more in the power plays of court politics than in some grand, mad, bigamous passion, but it didn't matter. A succession of her alleged lovers were executed, and then, fearing that Claudius might be swayed by love for his wife, an imperial advisor ordered that Messalina herself be killed before she had the chance to plead her case…"
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| Shagnasty | 29 Jul 2025 7:19 a.m. PST |
When the Legend and the Truth conflict, print the Legend. |
| Tango01 | 29 Jul 2025 4:11 p.m. PST |
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